Timothy Lem-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Lem-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lem-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | LEM-SMITH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Colson Whitehead's Paranoid Styles
This article makes the case for a rejuvenated and multifaceted mode of paranoid reading. Eve Sedgwick famously used the term paranoid reading to signal critique's overblown, cynical, and alarmist tendencies and to provisionally create the space for a reparative alternative. Since then, the specific concept of paranoia has barely figured in the dispute over critique's usefulness, appearing only latently in, for example, Bruno Latour's “Why Has Cri…
The “Con” in Conspiracy
This article argues that Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer-prize winning play Topdog/Underdog (1999) mobilizes a conspiracy theory concept of anti-black violence in America. The highly discursive play depicts a pair of black brothers named Lincoln and Booth as they banter, argue, and compete with each other over games of three-card monte. In the final scene of the play, the brothers fulfil the destiny inscribed in their names: Booth shoots and kills his…
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The “Con” in Conspiracy
This article argues that Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer-prize winning play Topdog/Underdog (1999) mobilizes a conspiracy theory concept of anti-black violence in America. The highly discursive play depicts a pair of black brothers named Lincoln and Booth as they banter, argue, and compete with each other over games of three-card monte. In the final scene of the play, the brothers fulfil the destiny inscribed in their names: Booth shoots and kills his…
Colson Whitehead's Paranoid Styles
This article makes the case for a rejuvenated and multifaceted mode of paranoid reading. Eve Sedgwick famously used the term paranoid reading to signal critique's overblown, cynical, and alarmist tendencies and to provisionally create the space for a reparative alternative. Since then, the specific concept of paranoia has barely figured in the dispute over critique's usefulness, appearing only latently in, for example, Bruno Latour's “Why Has Cri…
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Criticism (1 work) · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 work) · Ideology (1 work) · Modern American Literature Studies (1 work)