Katherine Henninger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1158760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Henninger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Henninger |
| SIGNATURE | HENNINGER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Welty’s White Girlhoods In/As History”
My Childhood Is Ruined: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence
This essay uses insights from Southern and childhood studies-particularly Robin Bernstein's performative theories of racial innocence-to analyze Lee's newly complicated contributions to understanding US racial histories. I argue that where To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), following American literary tradition, offers child-embodied racial innocence as a solution to injustice, Go Set a Watchman (2015) excoriates it as the problem. Deliberately and fo…
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. Directed by Sam Pollard
Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing
Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison
KATHERINE HENNINGER Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison . . . the very conception "poor white" is an oxymoron. It insists on the irreconcilable nature of its two parts; the unnaturalness of their yoking assumes a world view in which to be white is to be assured of a satisfactory share of personal resources. When whites are discovered deprived of these-as was most dramatically the case in the South-they take on the status of fre…
My Childhood Is Ruined: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence
This essay uses insights from Southern and childhood studies-particularly Robin Bernstein's performative theories of racial innocence-to analyze Lee's newly complicated contributions to understanding US racial histories. I argue that where To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), following American literary tradition, offers child-embodied racial innocence as a solution to injustice, Go Set a Watchman (2015) excoriates it as the problem. Deliberately and fo…
Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison
KATHERINE HENNINGER Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison . . . the very conception "poor white" is an oxymoron. It insists on the irreconcilable nature of its two parts; the unnaturalness of their yoking assumes a world view in which to be white is to be assured of a satisfactory share of personal resources. When whites are discovered deprived of these-as was most dramatically the case in the South-they take on the status of fre…
Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison
KATHERINE HENNINGER Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison . . . the very conception "poor white" is an oxymoron. It insists on the irreconcilable nature of its two parts; the unnaturalness of their yoking assumes a world view in which to be white is to be assured of a satisfactory share of personal resources. When whites are discovered deprived of these-as was most dramatically the case in the South-they take on the status of fre…
Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. Directed by Sam Pollard
My Childhood Is Ruined: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence
This essay uses insights from Southern and childhood studies-particularly Robin Bernstein's performative theories of racial innocence-to analyze Lee's newly complicated contributions to understanding US racial histories. I argue that where To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), following American literary tradition, offers child-embodied racial innocence as a solution to injustice, Go Set a Watchman (2015) excoriates it as the problem. Deliberately and fo…
Welty’s White Girlhoods In/As History”
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (2 works) · White (mutation (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Algorithm (1 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works)