Linda Selzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Selzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Selzer |
| SIGNATURE | SELZER L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Instruments More Perfect than Bodies
Instruments More Perfect than Bodies: Romancing Uplift in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist Linda Selzer (bio) In the intriguing conclusion to Colson Whitehead's increasingly celebrated novel The Intuitionist (1999), the narrative's intelligent and gutsy protagonist, Lila Mae Watson, bides her time in seclusion, waiting for the right moment to release the secret to one of the novel's central mysteries: how to build the perfect elevator. Like pr…
New Eclecticism
New EclecticismAn Interview with Colson Whitehead Linda Selzer Colson Whitehead has published three innovative and widely-acclaimed novels, The Intuitionist (1999), John Henry Days (2001), and Apex Hides the Hurt (2006), as well as a book of creative nonfiction, The Colossus of New York (2003). Born in Manhattan in 1969, he attended Trinity School and then majored in English at Harvard College. After graduating in 1991, Whitehead worked as a popu…
"Master-Slave Dialectics in Charles Johnson's "The Education of Mingo
slave is a part of master, a living but separated part of his bodily frame. (Aristotle, Politics 1255b-10) In a postscript to The Phenomenology of Black Body (1993), Charles Johnson describes difficult circumstances under which he originally composed that essay in 1975. A graduate student in philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook, Johnson was in midst of one of most difficult years in his life--a year marked by unemployment and hardship, as well as by bi…
Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple
An important juncture in Alice Walker's The Color Purple is reached when Celie first recovers the missing letters from her long-lost sister Nettie. This discovery not only signals the introduction of a new narrator to this epistolary novel but also begins the transformation of Celie from writer to reader. Indeed, the passage in which Celie struggles to puzzle out the markings on her first envelope from Nettie provides a concrete illustration of b…
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Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple
An important juncture in Alice Walker's The Color Purple is reached when Celie first recovers the missing letters from her long-lost sister Nettie. This discovery not only signals the introduction of a new narrator to this epistolary novel but also begins the transformation of Celie from writer to reader. Indeed, the passage in which Celie struggles to puzzle out the markings on her first envelope from Nettie provides a concrete illustration of b…
"Master-Slave Dialectics in Charles Johnson's "The Education of Mingo
slave is a part of master, a living but separated part of his bodily frame. (Aristotle, Politics 1255b-10) In a postscript to The Phenomenology of Black Body (1993), Charles Johnson describes difficult circumstances under which he originally composed that essay in 1975. A graduate student in philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook, Johnson was in midst of one of most difficult years in his life--a year marked by unemployment and hardship, as well as by bi…
New Eclecticism
New EclecticismAn Interview with Colson Whitehead Linda Selzer Colson Whitehead has published three innovative and widely-acclaimed novels, The Intuitionist (1999), John Henry Days (2001), and Apex Hides the Hurt (2006), as well as a book of creative nonfiction, The Colossus of New York (2003). Born in Manhattan in 1969, he attended Trinity School and then majored in English at Harvard College. After graduating in 1991, Whitehead worked as a popu…
Instruments More Perfect than Bodies
Instruments More Perfect than Bodies: Romancing Uplift in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist Linda Selzer (bio) In the intriguing conclusion to Colson Whitehead's increasingly celebrated novel The Intuitionist (1999), the narrative's intelligent and gutsy protagonist, Lila Mae Watson, bides her time in seclusion, waiting for the right moment to release the secret to one of the novel's central mysteries: how to build the perfect elevator. Like pr…
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