Kathleen Donegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Donegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Donegan |
| SIGNATURE | DONEGAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not Dead Yet
This essay concentrates on the relation between song and history in the lives of the enslaved and the afterlives of slavery, particularly by tracing the history of the song "Take Him to the Gulley," which became known as "the famous slave song of Jamaica." Thinking alongside Katherine McKittrick's and Sylvia Wynter's work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site…
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean
Marooned
With the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown behind us and the four hundredth anniversary of Plymouth Plantation just ahead, competing stories about American origins remain in circulation. Joseph Kelly enters the conversation with a new answer: the origins of American history can be found with the colonists who were marooned on the island of Bermuda in 1609. Kelly argues that when the Sea Venture, the flagship of the “third su…
Moving Memories
I grew up memorializing Puritans, maybe more than most. In 1976 in Massachusetts it was not just John Hancock and Samuel Adams who were in our elementary-school classrooms but also the Puritans, those pious rebels who, as we learned, gave birth to the American Revolution. It was not any particular Puritan. It was the Puritans, our Puritans, and anything we needed to learn about being American would start with them. At school, we girls sewed bonne…
Response to Cristobal Silva
The Bonds of Immunity
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Response to Cristobal Silva
The Bonds of Immunity
Moving Memories
I grew up memorializing Puritans, maybe more than most. In 1976 in Massachusetts it was not just John Hancock and Samuel Adams who were in our elementary-school classrooms but also the Puritans, those pious rebels who, as we learned, gave birth to the American Revolution. It was not any particular Puritan. It was the Puritans, our Puritans, and anything we needed to learn about being American would start with them. At school, we girls sewed bonne…
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean
Marooned
With the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown behind us and the four hundredth anniversary of Plymouth Plantation just ahead, competing stories about American origins remain in circulation. Joseph Kelly enters the conversation with a new answer: the origins of American history can be found with the colonists who were marooned on the island of Bermuda in 1609. Kelly argues that when the Sea Venture, the flagship of the “third su…
Not Dead Yet
This essay concentrates on the relation between song and history in the lives of the enslaved and the afterlives of slavery, particularly by tracing the history of the song "Take Him to the Gulley," which became known as "the famous slave song of Jamaica." Thinking alongside Katherine McKittrick's and Sylvia Wynter's work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site…
History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)