Derek C Maus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek C Maus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek C |
| FAMILY NAME | Maus |
| SIGNATURE | MAUS D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8210-4342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
That Middle World
Reviewed by: That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing by Julia S. Charles, and: Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America by Brigitte Fielder Derek C. Maus Julia S. Charles. That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2020. 242 pp. $29.95. Brigitte Fielder. Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Cent…
Laughing to Keep from Dying
Goethe Meets Baldwin
Hyperreality in the Black Sea
During and immediately after the crisis that resulted in Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, a number of commentators in the US media referenced Lev Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches and Vasily Aksyonov's The Island of Crimea as works of literary fiction that helped to explain or even predicted present-day events. Although there is some superficial truth to such statements, both works are actually far more interested in exposing and…
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Reviewed by: The Sellout by Paul Beatty Derek C. Maus (bio) Beatty, Paul. The Sellout. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. To begin, a declaration: it is high time to bestow an adjectival eponym on Paul Beatty (I cast my vote preemptively for “Beattific” rather than the usual sorts of constructions like “Beattyesque” or “Beattian”). Because, yo, Time magazine and Jonathan Franzen, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but the …
Kneeling before the fathers’ wand
In their fictional critiques of colonialism/imperialism, both Thomas Pynchon and J.M. Coetzee emphasize the ways in which the colonial powers misrepresent their intent through the conscious misuse of metaphorical language, especially that surrounding the paternal relationship. Pynchon's V. (1966) and Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) address the issue by presenting a number of settings in which such a distortion of language occurs. These disparate secti…
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Kneeling before the fathers’ wand
In their fictional critiques of colonialism/imperialism, both Thomas Pynchon and J.M. Coetzee emphasize the ways in which the colonial powers misrepresent their intent through the conscious misuse of metaphorical language, especially that surrounding the paternal relationship. Pynchon's V. (1966) and Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) address the issue by presenting a number of settings in which such a distortion of language occurs. These disparate secti…
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Reviewed by: The Sellout by Paul Beatty Derek C. Maus (bio) Beatty, Paul. The Sellout. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. To begin, a declaration: it is high time to bestow an adjectival eponym on Paul Beatty (I cast my vote preemptively for “Beattific” rather than the usual sorts of constructions like “Beattyesque” or “Beattian”). Because, yo, Time magazine and Jonathan Franzen, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but the …
Goethe Meets Baldwin
Hyperreality in the Black Sea
During and immediately after the crisis that resulted in Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, a number of commentators in the US media referenced Lev Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches and Vasily Aksyonov's The Island of Crimea as works of literary fiction that helped to explain or even predicted present-day events. Although there is some superficial truth to such statements, both works are actually far more interested in exposing and…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
That Middle World
Reviewed by: That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing by Julia S. Charles, and: Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America by Brigitte Fielder Derek C. Maus Julia S. Charles. That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2020. 242 pp. $29.95. Brigitte Fielder. Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Cent…
Laughing to Keep from Dying
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