Sonnet Retman
Biographic Data
| ID | 215419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonnet Retman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonnet |
| FAMILY NAME | Retman |
| SIGNATURE | RETMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Memphis Minnie's "Scientific Sound: Afro-Sonic Modernity and the Jukebox Era of the Blues
Memphis Minnie's "Scientific Sound":Afro-Sonic Modernity and the Jukebox Era of the Blues Sonnet Retman (bio) On New Year's Eve of 1942, Langston Hughes saw Memphis Minnie perform at the 230 Club in Chicago. She plays electric guitar, at least a year even before Muddy Waters.1 In his front-page column in the Chicago Defender, "Here to Yonder," on January 9, 1943, Hughes observes that she looks more than ever like a colored lady teacher in a neat …
Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, …
Return of the Native”: Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South and the Work of Signifying Ethnography
In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African American life in the South. Employing the methodology of anthropology and the genres of travelogue and documentary book, Brown attends to the silenced voices, ignore…
What Was African American Literature?
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"Langston Hughes's "Rejuvenation Through Joy: Passing, Racial Performance, and the Marketplace
This essay reads Langston Hughes's "Rejuvenation Through Joy," a satirical tale of passing from his short story collection The Ways of White Folks (1934), to explore how racial authenticity is produced and capitalized upon within mass-consumer culture in the interwar period. I argue that "Rejuvenation" offers a critique of racial capitalism in the age of the modern assembly-line by demonstrating the ways that race intersects with labor markets, c…
Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression
For last-minute help in capturing the book's artwork and for getting the visuals and their humor instantaneously-like everything else-I am indebted to Mischa.My aunt Mary Beth Kelsey showed me that a doctorate was possible, along with many other things
Between rock and a hard place: Narrating Nona Hendryx's Inscrutable Career
Elaborating on the imperialist grasp of rockism, Kelefa Sanneh writes ‘There's a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for doo-wop groups and folk singers and disco queens and even rappers—just so long as they, y‘know, rock.’ What's striking is how closely Nona Hendryx's career fits within these categories—doo-wop singer, disco queen, rocker—yet, she still hasn't received her due, even within that flawed, proverbial rockist Hall of Fame. Buildi…
Nothing Was Lost in the Masquerade: The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale
Sonnet Retman, "Nothing Was Lost in the Masquerade": The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale, African American Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 417-437
Stryker's FSA Collection: Something more than a catalogue of celluloid rectangles in a government storehouse
Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression
For last-minute help in capturing the book's artwork and for getting the visuals and their humor instantaneously-like everything else-I am indebted to Mischa.My aunt Mary Beth Kelsey showed me that a doctorate was possible, along with many other things
Between rock and a hard place: Narrating Nona Hendryx's Inscrutable Career
Elaborating on the imperialist grasp of rockism, Kelefa Sanneh writes ‘There's a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for doo-wop groups and folk singers and disco queens and even rappers—just so long as they, y‘know, rock.’ What's striking is how closely Nona Hendryx's career fits within these categories—doo-wop singer, disco queen, rocker—yet, she still hasn't received her due, even within that flawed, proverbial rockist Hall of Fame. Buildi…
Stryker's FSA Collection: Something more than a catalogue of celluloid rectangles in a government storehouse
Nothing Was Lost in the Masquerade: The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale
Sonnet Retman, "Nothing Was Lost in the Masquerade": The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale, African American Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 417-437
Between rock and a hard place: Narrating Nona Hendryx's Inscrutable Career
Elaborating on the imperialist grasp of rockism, Kelefa Sanneh writes ‘There's a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for doo-wop groups and folk singers and disco queens and even rappers—just so long as they, y‘know, rock.’ What's striking is how closely Nona Hendryx's career fits within these categories—doo-wop singer, disco queen, rocker—yet, she still hasn't received her due, even within that flawed, proverbial rockist Hall of Fame. Buildi…
Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression
For last-minute help in capturing the book's artwork and for getting the visuals and their humor instantaneously-like everything else-I am indebted to Mischa.My aunt Mary Beth Kelsey showed me that a doctorate was possible, along with many other things
"Langston Hughes's "Rejuvenation Through Joy: Passing, Racial Performance, and the Marketplace
This essay reads Langston Hughes's "Rejuvenation Through Joy," a satirical tale of passing from his short story collection The Ways of White Folks (1934), to explore how racial authenticity is produced and capitalized upon within mass-consumer culture in the interwar period. I argue that "Rejuvenation" offers a critique of racial capitalism in the age of the modern assembly-line by demonstrating the ways that race intersects with labor markets, c…
What Was African American Literature?
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, …
Return of the Native”: Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South and the Work of Signifying Ethnography
In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African American life in the South. Employing the methodology of anthropology and the genres of travelogue and documentary book, Brown attends to the silenced voices, ignore…
"Memphis Minnie's "Scientific Sound: Afro-Sonic Modernity and the Jukebox Era of the Blues
Memphis Minnie's "Scientific Sound":Afro-Sonic Modernity and the Jukebox Era of the Blues Sonnet Retman (bio) On New Year's Eve of 1942, Langston Hughes saw Memphis Minnie perform at the 230 Club in Chicago. She plays electric guitar, at least a year even before Muddy Waters.1 In his front-page column in the Chicago Defender, "Here to Yonder," on January 9, 1943, Hughes observes that she looks more than ever like a colored lady teacher in a neat …
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