Brent Hayes Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 201193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Hayes Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent Hayes |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS B H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Archives from the Black Diaspora
Archives from the Black Diaspora:A Roundtable Discussion Melanie Chambliss (bio), Brent Hayes Edwards (bio), and Alexsandra Mitchell (bio) Alexsandra Mitchell: Paul Gilroy's 1993 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness provided a context for understanding Black culture beyond the frame of the nation-state that proved to be groundbreaking for a generation of scholars working on African diasporic culture that included Kim Butler, Mic…
Transplanted Exoticism
Nelisiwe Xaba’s Fremde Tänze is a remarkable exercise in transplanted exoticism. Its trenchant critique of German imaginings of racialized and eroticized Others unavoidably took on different meanings when Xaba performed it in Chicago in the fall of 2017
Phantom Africa
Epistrophies
Epistrophies
Forty More Observations
Forty More Observations Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) At the panel discussion “Callaloo: A Forum for Academics and Creative Writers,” Brent Hayes Edwards presented these remarks. It was slightly embarrassing, I have to admit, to realize that the first time I celebrated an anniversary of Callaloo was all the way back in 2001, at the Modern Language Association convention in New Orleans, where I spoke on a panel organized for the 25th anniversary of th…
Movement after Randy Martin
This section collects a series of short reflections on the life, camaraderie, and scholarship of Randy Martin, a longtime member of the Social Text editorial collective. In place of definitive, authoritative analyses of Martin's work, these pieces present a montage of personal snapshots by people that collaborated, moved, thought, wrote, edited, and learned with him
The Taste of the Archive
The Taste of the Archive Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) À la sauvette The man stepping out from behind the curving metal is looking away, his head slightly tilted back in exhilaration or relief. The displacement of his gaze gives the photograph an air of the illicit: the surreptitious exposure of one caught unaware at a moment of vulnerability. His hair is immaculately coiffed, his double-breasted suit jacket buttoned, which only serve to draw attenti…
Black Serial Poetics
Black Serial PoeticsAn Introduction to Ed Roberson Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) This special section is the first collection of criticism devoted to the work of Ed Roberson, one of the most quietly dazzling poets writing in English today. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Roberson's first book, When Thy King Is a Boy, as well as the upcoming appearance of his latest (ninth) volume, To See the Earth Before the End of the …
Of the Sons of Master and Man
The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification...
The Souls of Black Folk
Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing account of the situation of African Americans in the United States. Du Bo…
Collective
The story of the Social Text collective begins with the desire to establish a counterpoint to possessive individualism, creating a means for valuing collaborative engagement against the singular authorship of genius; later it would come to stand against the deadening metric of disciplinary accountability as well. The editorial collective foments a deliberative process that aims to set its own context and hence to make something generative of its …
Social Text
Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate, the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “ever…
Poetry
Literature has been part of the purview of Social Text since the journal's inception, although the literary has never been presumed to be its paradigmatic or primary object of study. Moreover, from issue 4 (1981) through issue 39 (1994), the journal not only published scholarship on literature, but also sporadically published poetry and fiction. There are intriguing parallels between the experimentalism of the essays in the journal, especially in…
Southern Cross
Southern Cross:Reflections on the Orientation of Callaloo Brent Edwards (bio) It has occurred to me only recently what a great pleasure and rare opportunity it is to write about a journal during its lifetime, from within its field of influence—still under its spell, as it were—rather than historically, in the tentative and generalizing archival reconstructions of print culture I am much more accustomed to attempting. It is more tricky than it mig…
Astral Caption (after an etching by Howardena Pindell, Cassiopeia, Andromeda [2003)]
Astral Caption:(After an etching by Howardena Pindell, Cassiopeia, Andromeda [2003]) Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) I write to snatch the light away the way the stars bleed white from the rims of their sockets, the faint afterflash of how many dark paths of departure I write to intuit what trifles or looms beyond my vision, as a map is always a fanciful concatenation of what can't be known at once: Laventille, Ouagadougou, Takoradi, Newark, Belém. The…
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 D…
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://d…
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 D…
Aim C saire and the Syntax of Influence
Much of the criticism on Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal focuses on the poem's linguistic innovation, especially its use of neologism. This paper considers the poem's syntax, its unusual and sometimes disorienting ways of organizing the links between sentence elements and between individual poetic lines. In this regard, the Cahier's recourse to anaphora is one of its features that has had the most influence on the work of other Af…
Uptown Conversation
The Practice of Diaspora
The Shadow of Shadows
Selvedge Salvage
Gayatri Chakravotry Spivak’s A Critique of Postcolonial Reason explicitly asks the reader to examine the limits of its argumentative structure. Just as Spivak has recently argued that the form of Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Lucy is paratactic (a way of using language that withholds connections and conjunctions), Spivak’s own A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is carefully constructed to force the reader to supply links between the sections of the text…
The Literary Ellington
The literary plays an indispensable role in the creative process and compositional technique of the great jazz composer and orchestra leader Duke Ellington. It is well known that he based a number of his pieces on literary sources and that many of his larger works in particular rely on narrative written by Ellington and/or his collaborator Billy Strayhorn, whether it was programmatic, recitative, or lyric. In all his music, Ellington was concerne…
The Uses of Diaspora
Social Text - 66 (Volume 19, Number 1), Spring 2001
The Shadow of Shadows
Unfinished Migrations
With “Unfinished Migrations,” Patterson and Kelley have provided an indispensable overview of the recent resurgence of African diaspora scholarship. Describing this “rebirth” in light of contemporary concerns with globalization and transnationalism, they usefully update the work of scholars such as St. Clair Drake, Joseph Harris, and George Shepperson, who over the past thirty-five years have provided similar catalogues and calls. Rather than con…
Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat
The Taste of the Archive
The Taste of the Archive Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) À la sauvette The man stepping out from behind the curving metal is looking away, his head slightly tilted back in exhilaration or relief. The displacement of his gaze gives the photograph an air of the illicit: the surreptitious exposure of one caught unaware at a moment of vulnerability. His hair is immaculately coiffed, his double-breasted suit jacket buttoned, which only serve to draw attenti…
Collective
The story of the Social Text collective begins with the desire to establish a counterpoint to possessive individualism, creating a means for valuing collaborative engagement against the singular authorship of genius; later it would come to stand against the deadening metric of disciplinary accountability as well. The editorial collective foments a deliberative process that aims to set its own context and hence to make something generative of its …
Social Text
Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate, the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “ever…
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://d…
An Interview with Brent Hayes Edwards
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1999
Middle Ear Recitation (a transcription of Cecil Taylor's "Erzulie Maketh Scent")
Middle Ear Recitation (a transcription of Cecil Taylor’s “Erzulie Maketh Scent”) Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) 1. Introit entering a cave, you Ascends to where a garden considered heat, terrible sharp grins, ecstatic chattering: three steps down in. “it’s like” three steps down. without moving the shudder of an eyelid in too much light, or shutter: rustled, rummed ascent “it’s like water” (her comment upon hearing it) Water, when light moves in it, h…
An Interview with Brent Hayes Edwards
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1999
Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey's Song
The work of Nathaniel Mackey inheres most insistently in its engagement with music. It records a "research at the interstice" 1 of expressive media, a deliberate and oblique elaboration of Louis Zukofsky's oft-repeated dictum that "poetry may be defined as an order of words that as movement and tone (rhythm and pitch) approaches in varying degrees the wordless art of music as a kind of mathematical limit" (19). This project takes place not simply…
Unfinished Migrations
With “Unfinished Migrations,” Patterson and Kelley have provided an indispensable overview of the recent resurgence of African diaspora scholarship. Describing this “rebirth” in light of contemporary concerns with globalization and transnationalism, they usefully update the work of scholars such as St. Clair Drake, Joseph Harris, and George Shepperson, who over the past thirty-five years have provided similar catalogues and calls. Rather than con…
From Abecedarium
Déchets. If, as Baudelaire tells us, the form of a city changes more quickly than a mortal's heart, then one's first experience of Paris should be a scaffolding or a construction site. From the start, the permanence of metamorphosis, the immodesty of the city's entrails, exposed. If you're lucky, arriving at your first apartment on a bright June midmorning, Paris greets you not just with a chantier, but with a crisis. Just as you turn the corner …
The Uses of Diaspora
Social Text - 66 (Volume 19, Number 1), Spring 2001
The Literary Ellington
The literary plays an indispensable role in the creative process and compositional technique of the great jazz composer and orchestra leader Duke Ellington. It is well known that he based a number of his pieces on literary sources and that many of his larger works in particular rely on narrative written by Ellington and/or his collaborator Billy Strayhorn, whether it was programmatic, recitative, or lyric. In all his music, Ellington was concerne…
A Bibliography of Jazz Poetry Criticism
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
Liner Notes (Shuggie Otis Reissue)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat
The Practice of Diaspora
The Shadow of Shadows
Selvedge Salvage
Gayatri Chakravotry Spivak’s A Critique of Postcolonial Reason explicitly asks the reader to examine the limits of its argumentative structure. Just as Spivak has recently argued that the form of Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Lucy is paratactic (a way of using language that withholds connections and conjunctions), Spivak’s own A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is carefully constructed to force the reader to supply links between the sections of the text…
Uptown Conversation
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 D…
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://d…
Pebbles of Consonance
Book Review| March 01 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards Brent Hayes Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brent Hayes Edwards; Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 134–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-134 D…
Aim C saire and the Syntax of Influence
Much of the criticism on Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal focuses on the poem's linguistic innovation, especially its use of neologism. This paper considers the poem's syntax, its unusual and sometimes disorienting ways of organizing the links between sentence elements and between individual poetic lines. In this regard, the Cahier's recourse to anaphora is one of its features that has had the most influence on the work of other Af…
Astral Caption (after an etching by Howardena Pindell, Cassiopeia, Andromeda [2003)]
Astral Caption:(After an etching by Howardena Pindell, Cassiopeia, Andromeda [2003]) Brent Hayes Edwards (bio) I write to snatch the light away the way the stars bleed white from the rims of their sockets, the faint afterflash of how many dark paths of departure I write to intuit what trifles or looms beyond my vision, as a map is always a fanciful concatenation of what can't be known at once: Laventille, Ouagadougou, Takoradi, Newark, Belém. The…
Southern Cross
Southern Cross:Reflections on the Orientation of Callaloo Brent Edwards (bio) It has occurred to me only recently what a great pleasure and rare opportunity it is to write about a journal during its lifetime, from within its field of influence—still under its spell, as it were—rather than historically, in the tentative and generalizing archival reconstructions of print culture I am much more accustomed to attempting. It is more tricky than it mig…
Of the Sons of Master and Man
The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification...
The Souls of Black Folk
Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing account of the situation of African Americans in the United States. Du Bo…
Collective
The story of the Social Text collective begins with the desire to establish a counterpoint to possessive individualism, creating a means for valuing collaborative engagement against the singular authorship of genius; later it would come to stand against the deadening metric of disciplinary accountability as well. The editorial collective foments a deliberative process that aims to set its own context and hence to make something generative of its …
Social Text
Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate, the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “ever…
Poetry
Literature has been part of the purview of Social Text since the journal's inception, although the literary has never been presumed to be its paradigmatic or primary object of study. Moreover, from issue 4 (1981) through issue 39 (1994), the journal not only published scholarship on literature, but also sporadically published poetry and fiction. There are intriguing parallels between the experimentalism of the essays in the journal, especially in…
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