Linda Furgerson Selzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1707887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Furgerson Selzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda Furgerson |
| FAMILY NAME | Selzer |
| SIGNATURE | SELZER L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophy in a ‘Syncopated Cadence’
Angela Nissel From Blog
Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism
Journal Article Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism: Figuring the Black Body Get access Linda F. Selzer Linda F. Selzer Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 15–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/35.4.15 Published: 01 December 2010
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…
Reading the Painterly Text
Many writers of the black diaspora have embarked upon figurative journeys to the troubled waters of the in their poetry, fiction, and criticism. Their attempts to wrest meaning from this historical site of terror speak to compelling identification of the as the originary moment of the black diasporic migration. In his well-known modernist poem Middle Passage (1945), Robert Hayden presents redemptive critique of the past through melange of imagine…
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…
Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism
Journal Article Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism: Figuring the Black Body Get access Linda F. Selzer Linda F. Selzer Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 15–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/35.4.15 Published: 01 December 2010
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…
Reading the Painterly Text
Many writers of the black diaspora have embarked upon figurative journeys to the troubled waters of the in their poetry, fiction, and criticism. Their attempts to wrest meaning from this historical site of terror speak to compelling identification of the as the originary moment of the black diasporic migration. In his well-known modernist poem Middle Passage (1945), Robert Hayden presents redemptive critique of the past through melange of imagine…
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…
Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism
Journal Article Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism: Figuring the Black Body Get access Linda F. Selzer Linda F. Selzer Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 15–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/35.4.15 Published: 01 December 2010
Angela Nissel From Blog
Philosophy in a ‘Syncopated Cadence’
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