Bill Freind
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Freind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Freind |
| SIGNATURE | FREIND B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, United States |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker”
During Amiri Baraka’s sentencing in 1967 for possessing an illegal weapon, Judge Leon Kapp read parts of Baraka’s poem “Black People!” including the line “[t]he magic words are: Up against the wall motherfucker!” This quickly became one of the most powerful phrases of the 1960s: an anarchist group in Manhattan went by the name Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers, and the slogan was central to the student uprising at Columbia University. This becam…
Decoys
Research Article| September 01 2006 Decoys: Barrett Watten's Bad History and Michal Rovner Bill Freind Bill Freind Rowan University [email protected] Bill Freind is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rowan University. He has published articles Poetics Today, the Journal of Modern Literature, Paideuma, and other journals. He is editing a collection of essays about the Araki Yasusada affair and is at work on a manuscript titled Adve…
After the Author, After Hiroshima
After the Author, After Hiroshima Bill Freind Review of: Araki Yasusada’s Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada’s Letters In English. Eds. Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez. Cumberland, RI: Combo, 2005. While Foucault imagines a time in which questions of the “authenticity” and “originality” of the author would become irrelevant (138), and while Barthes famously concludes that “the birth of the reader must be ran…
Deferral of the Author
This essay argues that the work of Araki Yasusada, an alleged Hiroshima survivor and poet who was later discovered to be an invention, offers an important example of the potential of heteronyms to satisfy the reader's desire for an author figure behind the text while simultaneously highlighting the fictive status of this figure. Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada does this by first building up the heteronym of Yasusada, then …
Just Hoaxing
(2001). JUST HOAXING: A reply to margaret soltan's 'hoax poetry in america' Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 209-219
Play the blues, punk
Postmodern Culture - Volume 7, Number 3, May 1997
Deferral of the Author
This essay argues that the work of Araki Yasusada, an alleged Hiroshima survivor and poet who was later discovered to be an invention, offers an important example of the potential of heteronyms to satisfy the reader's desire for an author figure behind the text while simultaneously highlighting the fictive status of this figure. Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada does this by first building up the heteronym of Yasusada, then …
Play the blues, punk
Postmodern Culture - Volume 7, Number 3, May 1997
Just Hoaxing
(2001). JUST HOAXING: A reply to margaret soltan's 'hoax poetry in america' Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 209-219
Deferral of the Author
This essay argues that the work of Araki Yasusada, an alleged Hiroshima survivor and poet who was later discovered to be an invention, offers an important example of the potential of heteronyms to satisfy the reader's desire for an author figure behind the text while simultaneously highlighting the fictive status of this figure. Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada does this by first building up the heteronym of Yasusada, then …
Decoys
Research Article| September 01 2006 Decoys: Barrett Watten's Bad History and Michal Rovner Bill Freind Bill Freind Rowan University [email protected] Bill Freind is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rowan University. He has published articles Poetics Today, the Journal of Modern Literature, Paideuma, and other journals. He is editing a collection of essays about the Araki Yasusada affair and is at work on a manuscript titled Adve…
After the Author, After Hiroshima
After the Author, After Hiroshima Bill Freind Review of: Araki Yasusada’s Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada’s Letters In English. Eds. Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez. Cumberland, RI: Combo, 2005. While Foucault imagines a time in which questions of the “authenticity” and “originality” of the author would become irrelevant (138), and while Barthes famously concludes that “the birth of the reader must be ran…
Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker”
During Amiri Baraka’s sentencing in 1967 for possessing an illegal weapon, Judge Leon Kapp read parts of Baraka’s poem “Black People!” including the line “[t]he magic words are: Up against the wall motherfucker!” This quickly became one of the most powerful phrases of the 1960s: an anarchist group in Manhattan went by the name Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers, and the slogan was central to the student uprising at Columbia University. This becam…
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