Alexander G Weheliye
Biographic Data
| ID | 140700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander G Weheliye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander G |
| FAMILY NAME | Weheliye |
| SIGNATURE | WEHELIYE A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Hall 215, Department of English, 1897 Sheridan Road, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2240, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Graphic Modernities
Research Article| July 01 2015 Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois's Graphic Modernities Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (2): 23–58. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.2.0023 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ic…
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
The legalization of euthanasia, both in the Netherlands and in other\ncountries, is usually justified in reference to the right to autonomy of\npatients. Utilizing recent Dutch jurisprudence, this article intends to show\nthat the judicial proceedings on euthanasia in the Netherlands have not so\nmuch enhanced the autonomy of patients, as the autonomy of the medical\nprofession
Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness
This short essay responds to Tavia Nyong’o’s insightful “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions,” a discussion of Weheliye’s Phonographies and Julian Henriques’s Sonic Bodies , concentrating in particular on the analytics of blackness in Western modernity, the place of Africa in diaspora discourse, and the conceptual provenances of black feminist approaches
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (review)
Reviewed by: Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Alexander G. Weheliye Amiri Baraka. Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music. Berkeley: U of California P, 2009. 426 pp. $17.95. Amiri Baraka is a national treasure. Besides his numerous accomplishments in the worlds of drama, poetry, autobiography, and fiction, Baraka was also instrumental in the creation of the Black Arts Movement, both as a founder of t…
Pornotropes
This article foregrounds the link between slavery and sexuality explored by Hortense Spillers - what she calls pornotroping - which exposes some of the limitations of Giorgio Agamben's ` homo sacer' (sacred man) figure by calling attention to how political violence frequently produces forces that exceed it. This is followed by an analysis of the film Sankofa , ostensibly an uplifting narrative about the horrors of slavery, which nevertheless cann…
"These - Are - The "Breaks: A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
It's Beginning to Feel Like . . .Prolegomena Beginnings and introductions are occasions for sonic events or apparitions-and song intros are no exception: the soft, mid-tempo, yet insistent drum-machine rumblings and water tap sounds of Mtume's ''Juicy Fruit'' that prolong the wait for the grand entrance of the bass, especially in the extended twelve-inch version; the lengthy cinematic string section of Phantom/Ghost's ''Perfect Lovers (Unperfect …
The Grooves of Temporality
a model of modern black temporality and cultural practice rooted in and routed through the sonic. While Souls blends together history, eulogy, sociol-ogy, personal anecdote, economics, lyricism, ethnography, fi ction, and cultural criticism of black music, Du Bois’s central aesthetic achievement in this epochal text appears in bars of music placed before each chapter. The way the “Sorrow Songs ” are threaded throughout the text is the key to Soul…
I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity
Research Article| May 01 2003 “I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 97–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-2-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alexander G. Weheliye; “I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity. boundary 2 1 May 2003;…
Feenin
Research Article| June 01 2002 "Feenin": POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alexander G. Weheliye; "Feenin": POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC. Social Tex…
Keepin' It (Un)Real: Perusing the Boundaries of Hip Hop Culture
ONE MIGHT ASK WHETHER THERE REMAINS MUCH, IF ANYTHING, TO SAY about Rap music and Hip Hop culture given the mass of academic and quasi-academic texts that have been written about this recent artform. Tricia Rose, Michael Eric Dyson, and Robin Kelley are only the most prominent of many histories and interpretations. 1 At closer look, however, this may not be the case. Most monographs or books containing substantial treatises of Hip Hop appeared in…
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
It's Beginning to Feel Like . . .Prolegomena Beginnings and introductions are occasions for sonic events or apparitions-and song intros are no exception: the soft, mid-tempo, yet insistent drum-machine rumblings and water tap sounds of Mtume's ''Juicy Fruit'' that prolong the wait for the grand entrance of the bass, especially in the extended twelve-inch version; the lengthy cinematic string section of Phantom/Ghost's ''Perfect Lovers (Unperfect …
Feenin
Research Article| June 01 2002 "Feenin": POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alexander G. Weheliye; "Feenin": POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC. Social Tex…
Pornotropes
This article foregrounds the link between slavery and sexuality explored by Hortense Spillers - what she calls pornotroping - which exposes some of the limitations of Giorgio Agamben's ` homo sacer' (sacred man) figure by calling attention to how political violence frequently produces forces that exceed it. This is followed by an analysis of the film Sankofa , ostensibly an uplifting narrative about the horrors of slavery, which nevertheless cann…
The Grooves of Temporality
a model of modern black temporality and cultural practice rooted in and routed through the sonic. While Souls blends together history, eulogy, sociol-ogy, personal anecdote, economics, lyricism, ethnography, fi ction, and cultural criticism of black music, Du Bois’s central aesthetic achievement in this epochal text appears in bars of music placed before each chapter. The way the “Sorrow Songs ” are threaded throughout the text is the key to Soul…
Keepin' It (Un)Real: Perusing the Boundaries of Hip Hop Culture
ONE MIGHT ASK WHETHER THERE REMAINS MUCH, IF ANYTHING, TO SAY about Rap music and Hip Hop culture given the mass of academic and quasi-academic texts that have been written about this recent artform. Tricia Rose, Michael Eric Dyson, and Robin Kelley are only the most prominent of many histories and interpretations. 1 At closer look, however, this may not be the case. Most monographs or books containing substantial treatises of Hip Hop appeared in…
Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Graphic Modernities
Research Article| July 01 2015 Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois's Graphic Modernities Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (2): 23–58. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.2.0023 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ic…
Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness
This short essay responds to Tavia Nyong’o’s insightful “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions,” a discussion of Weheliye’s Phonographies and Julian Henriques’s Sonic Bodies , concentrating in particular on the analytics of blackness in Western modernity, the place of Africa in diaspora discourse, and the conceptual provenances of black feminist approaches
Keepin' It (Un)Real: Perusing the Boundaries of Hip Hop Culture
ONE MIGHT ASK WHETHER THERE REMAINS MUCH, IF ANYTHING, TO SAY about Rap music and Hip Hop culture given the mass of academic and quasi-academic texts that have been written about this recent artform. Tricia Rose, Michael Eric Dyson, and Robin Kelley are only the most prominent of many histories and interpretations. 1 At closer look, however, this may not be the case. Most monographs or books containing substantial treatises of Hip Hop appeared in…
Feenin
Research Article| June 01 2002 "Feenin": POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alexander G. Weheliye; "Feenin": POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC. Social Tex…
I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity
Research Article| May 01 2003 “I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 97–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-2-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alexander G. Weheliye; “I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity. boundary 2 1 May 2003;…
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
It's Beginning to Feel Like . . .Prolegomena Beginnings and introductions are occasions for sonic events or apparitions-and song intros are no exception: the soft, mid-tempo, yet insistent drum-machine rumblings and water tap sounds of Mtume's ''Juicy Fruit'' that prolong the wait for the grand entrance of the bass, especially in the extended twelve-inch version; the lengthy cinematic string section of Phantom/Ghost's ''Perfect Lovers (Unperfect …
The Grooves of Temporality
a model of modern black temporality and cultural practice rooted in and routed through the sonic. While Souls blends together history, eulogy, sociol-ogy, personal anecdote, economics, lyricism, ethnography, fi ction, and cultural criticism of black music, Du Bois’s central aesthetic achievement in this epochal text appears in bars of music placed before each chapter. The way the “Sorrow Songs ” are threaded throughout the text is the key to Soul…
"These - Are - The "Breaks: A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Pornotropes
This article foregrounds the link between slavery and sexuality explored by Hortense Spillers - what she calls pornotroping - which exposes some of the limitations of Giorgio Agamben's ` homo sacer' (sacred man) figure by calling attention to how political violence frequently produces forces that exceed it. This is followed by an analysis of the film Sankofa , ostensibly an uplifting narrative about the horrors of slavery, which nevertheless cann…
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (review)
Reviewed by: Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Alexander G. Weheliye Amiri Baraka. Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music. Berkeley: U of California P, 2009. 426 pp. $17.95. Amiri Baraka is a national treasure. Besides his numerous accomplishments in the worlds of drama, poetry, autobiography, and fiction, Baraka was also instrumental in the creation of the Black Arts Movement, both as a founder of t…
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
The legalization of euthanasia, both in the Netherlands and in other\ncountries, is usually justified in reference to the right to autonomy of\npatients. Utilizing recent Dutch jurisprudence, this article intends to show\nthat the judicial proceedings on euthanasia in the Netherlands have not so\nmuch enhanced the autonomy of patients, as the autonomy of the medical\nprofession
Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness
This short essay responds to Tavia Nyong’o’s insightful “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions,” a discussion of Weheliye’s Phonographies and Julian Henriques’s Sonic Bodies , concentrating in particular on the analytics of blackness in Western modernity, the place of Africa in diaspora discourse, and the conceptual provenances of black feminist approaches
Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Graphic Modernities
Research Article| July 01 2015 Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois's Graphic Modernities Alexander G. Weheliye Alexander G. Weheliye Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (2): 23–58. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.2.0023 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ic…
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