Aaron Bartels-Swindells
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Bartels-Swindells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartels-Swindells |
| SIGNATURE | BARTELS-SWINDELLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unmasking communism
Can the repudiation of Eurocentric Marxism and embrace of Afrocentrism in Ayi Kwei Armah’s essays explain his shift from writing realist to historical novels? Contextualizing Armah’s work in relation to the global cultural turn in the second half of the twentieth century, this article understands his critique of racial capitalism and program of re-Africanization as a black Marxism. It then explains Armah’s embrace of the form of the historical no…
"The Metapragmatics of the "Minor Writer
How does the significance of Zoë Wicomb's description of herself as a "minor writer" in the 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize festival program contrast with her other uses of the term? Arguing that the term's usage at different times and places indexes distinct schemata of value, I examine the program as an artifact that sediments a certain formulation of Wicomb's literary persona and provides affordances for parsing her literary works
Unmasking communism
Can the repudiation of Eurocentric Marxism and embrace of Afrocentrism in Ayi Kwei Armah’s essays explain his shift from writing realist to historical novels? Contextualizing Armah’s work in relation to the global cultural turn in the second half of the twentieth century, this article understands his critique of racial capitalism and program of re-Africanization as a black Marxism. It then explains Armah’s embrace of the form of the historical no…
"The Metapragmatics of the "Minor Writer
How does the significance of Zoë Wicomb's description of herself as a "minor writer" in the 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize festival program contrast with her other uses of the term? Arguing that the term's usage at different times and places indexes distinct schemata of value, I examine the program as an artifact that sediments a certain formulation of Wicomb's literary persona and provides affordances for parsing her literary works
Unmasking communism
Can the repudiation of Eurocentric Marxism and embrace of Afrocentrism in Ayi Kwei Armah’s essays explain his shift from writing realist to historical novels? Contextualizing Armah’s work in relation to the global cultural turn in the second half of the twentieth century, this article understands his critique of racial capitalism and program of re-Africanization as a black Marxism. It then explains Armah’s embrace of the form of the historical no…
Affordance (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Communism (1 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Cultural turn (1 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (1 works) · History (1 works)