Joycelyn K Moody
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joycelyn K Moody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joycelyn K |
| FAMILY NAME | Moody |
| SIGNATURE | MOODY J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forty Years of Life Writing Scholarly Brilliance
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsider…
Teaching Black Life Writing in the 2020 US Election Season and beyond
Slavery and Class in the American South
Reviewed by: Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 by William L. Andrews Joycelyn K. Moody (bio) Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 William L. Andrews Oxford University Press, 2019, 389 pp. ISBN 9780190908386, $42.95 hardcover. In "Equal in Paris" (1955), an essay collected in his Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin describes wading…
New Directions in African American Autobiography Studies
Introduction
Introduction:Black Periodical Studies Eric Gardner (bio) and Joycelyn Moody (bio) This introduction summarizes the contents of this special issue and situates it among a host of exciting developments in black print culture studies. We offer the original articles that follow as exemplary models of the range of topics and methodologies representative of this growing field, and specifically of the nexus of African Americanist inquiry and periodical …
Tactical Lines in Three Black Women's Visual Portraits, 1773–1849
This essay explores power dynamics and aesthetic negotiations between artists and sitters in the production of pre-photographic portraits created as frontispiece author images for books with title pages naming a black woman as the (apparent) author. The essay traces a worried line of tradition among three black women author portraits from 1773 to 1849.Este ensayo explora las relaciones de poder y las negociaciones estéticas entre los artistas y l…
The Truth of Slave Narratives
This essay examines Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge and Life of William J. Brown, narratives of first-generation free-born black and indigenous persons in postemancipation Rhode Island. Eldridge and Brown separately assert intricate, representational truths about their (fore-) parents’ enslavement and their own ostensible free status. Each conveys a configuration of historical truth about institutional slavery, namely that the challenge of represent…
I Hadn't Joined Church Yet
(2012). “I Hadn't Joined Church Yet. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 153-182
“We wish to Plead our own Cause”
Despite the miscellany of restrictions hindering the freedoms of persons of African descent in antebellum United States, the oral and prtexts produced by blacks between 1840 and 1865 comprise an independent literature, following from earlier black revolutionaries' exigent insistence that "We wish to Plead our own Cause." Mid-nineteenth-century African American texts declare an independence from traditional genres and familiar conventions of white…
Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration
This essay examines the second of two virtually unknown texts coauthored by Frances Whipple (Green McDougal) and Elleanor Eldridge, both of Providence, Rhode Island: Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838) and Elleanor's Second Book (1839). Whereas the Memoirs exclusively chronicles Eldridge's life and misfortunes, Elleanor's Second Book contains only an abbreviated biography of its eponymous African and indigenous heroine. After its biographical ope…
Hell without Fires
Book Review| December 01 2009 Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative; Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African American Episcopal Church, 1865–1900; Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City Joycelyn Moody Joycelyn Moody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 839–841. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-05…
Speaking Power
Saints, Sinners, Saviors
Book Review| June 01 2003 Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature; “The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance By Trudier Harris. New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi, 218 pp. Cloth, $55.00;paper, $18.95.By Christina Accomando. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $22.95. Joycelyn Moody Joycelyn Moody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American L…
Public Sentiments
Book Review| March 01 2002 Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature By Glenn Hendler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Joycelyn Moody Joycelyn Moody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 156–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-156 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
"Doers of the Word"
Twice Other, Once Shy
New Directions in African American Autobiography Studies
I Hadn't Joined Church Yet
(2012). “I Hadn't Joined Church Yet. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 153-182
Twice Other, Once Shy
Twice Other, Once Shy
"Doers of the Word"
Public Sentiments
Book Review| March 01 2002 Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature By Glenn Hendler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Joycelyn Moody Joycelyn Moody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 156–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-156 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Saints, Sinners, Saviors
Book Review| June 01 2003 Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature; “The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance By Trudier Harris. New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi, 218 pp. Cloth, $55.00;paper, $18.95.By Christina Accomando. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $22.95. Joycelyn Moody Joycelyn Moody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American L…
Speaking Power
Hell without Fires
Book Review| December 01 2009 Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative; Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African American Episcopal Church, 1865–1900; Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City Joycelyn Moody Joycelyn Moody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 839–841. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-05…
“We wish to Plead our own Cause”
Despite the miscellany of restrictions hindering the freedoms of persons of African descent in antebellum United States, the oral and prtexts produced by blacks between 1840 and 1865 comprise an independent literature, following from earlier black revolutionaries' exigent insistence that "We wish to Plead our own Cause." Mid-nineteenth-century African American texts declare an independence from traditional genres and familiar conventions of white…
Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration
This essay examines the second of two virtually unknown texts coauthored by Frances Whipple (Green McDougal) and Elleanor Eldridge, both of Providence, Rhode Island: Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838) and Elleanor's Second Book (1839). Whereas the Memoirs exclusively chronicles Eldridge's life and misfortunes, Elleanor's Second Book contains only an abbreviated biography of its eponymous African and indigenous heroine. After its biographical ope…
I Hadn't Joined Church Yet
(2012). “I Hadn't Joined Church Yet. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 153-182
The Truth of Slave Narratives
This essay examines Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge and Life of William J. Brown, narratives of first-generation free-born black and indigenous persons in postemancipation Rhode Island. Eldridge and Brown separately assert intricate, representational truths about their (fore-) parents’ enslavement and their own ostensible free status. Each conveys a configuration of historical truth about institutional slavery, namely that the challenge of represent…
Introduction
Introduction:Black Periodical Studies Eric Gardner (bio) and Joycelyn Moody (bio) This introduction summarizes the contents of this special issue and situates it among a host of exciting developments in black print culture studies. We offer the original articles that follow as exemplary models of the range of topics and methodologies representative of this growing field, and specifically of the nexus of African Americanist inquiry and periodical …
Tactical Lines in Three Black Women's Visual Portraits, 1773–1849
This essay explores power dynamics and aesthetic negotiations between artists and sitters in the production of pre-photographic portraits created as frontispiece author images for books with title pages naming a black woman as the (apparent) author. The essay traces a worried line of tradition among three black women author portraits from 1773 to 1849.Este ensayo explora las relaciones de poder y las negociaciones estéticas entre los artistas y l…
New Directions in African American Autobiography Studies
Teaching Black Life Writing in the 2020 US Election Season and beyond
Slavery and Class in the American South
Reviewed by: Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 by William L. Andrews Joycelyn K. Moody (bio) Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 William L. Andrews Oxford University Press, 2019, 389 pp. ISBN 9780190908386, $42.95 hardcover. In "Equal in Paris" (1955), an essay collected in his Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin describes wading…
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsider…
Forty Years of Life Writing Scholarly Brilliance
Art (14 works) · History (14 works) · Race, History, and American Society (11 works) · Art history (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)