Susana M Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 215682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susana M Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susana M |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A New Era in Afrofuturism: An Interview with Sheree Renée Thomas
Ethnogothic Film
Ethno-Gothic films frame the African American historical situation within a Gothic context, one that, Ytasha Womack argues, provides ethnic audiences a distinctive way of dealing with cultural trauma. While drawing heavily on a gothic tradition most often associated with horror, it merges that material with a Black cultural context, an iconography that emphasizes a haunting sense of otherness, which it then uses to interrogate the contemporary te…
An OutKast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
More than Human: Black Feminisms of the Future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories
In her collection of essays The Black Interior, poet and critic Elizabeth Alexander asks two important questions about the nature of black cultural practice: “What do we learn when we pause at site
“Show, Don't Tell”
In this essay, Cooper and Morris review Robin M. Boylorn's award-winning autoethnography, Sweetwater. This book review foregrounds Sweetwater's significant interventions into several fields, including autoethnography, rural studies, Southern studies, and black feminist theory
Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 from Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
Book Review| September 01 2015 Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 from Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995. By Higashida, Cheryl. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. xi, 250 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00; e-book available.From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and…
The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay
This new directions essay traces the most recent trajectory in the field of hip-hop feminism. To that end, we map the current terrain of hip-hop feminist studies, first by identifying challenges and tensions, then by reviewing current literature and its engagement with these issues, and finally by identifying new and emergent areas for further development of the field. We argue that hip-hop feminism has effectively made space for itself in the br…
A Past Not Pure but Stifled: Vexed Legacies of Leadership in Toni Morrison's Love
In this essay, I argue that Toni Morrison's Love is in the tradition of texts such as Ernest Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Alice Walker's Meridian, and Charles Johnson's Dreamer in that it is a reevaluation of the civil rights movement and a meditation on the long-lasting consequences of civil rights struggles in African American communities. My analysis foregrounds the novel's indictment of paternalistic leadership figures, su…
Black Girls Are from the Future: Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling
Black Girls Are from the Future:Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling Susana M. Morris (bio) Vampires are a ubiquitous presence in contemporary American culture. The recent popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Twilight Saga, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, the Underworld films, and HBO's True Blood, among other works, not only reflects how saturated popular culture is with vampires but also the enduring importance of these…
Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
Reviewed by: Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation Susana M. Morris (bio) Sklar, Kathryn Kish, and James Brewer Stewart, eds. Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. One of the most famous images of abolitionist iconography is of an enslaved black woman, shackled and on bended knee, arms extended in woeful supplication. This image in many ways exemplified…
Black Girls Are from the Future: Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling
Black Girls Are from the Future:Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling Susana M. Morris (bio) Vampires are a ubiquitous presence in contemporary American culture. The recent popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Twilight Saga, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, the Underworld films, and HBO's True Blood, among other works, not only reflects how saturated popular culture is with vampires but also the enduring importance of these…
More than Human: Black Feminisms of the Future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories
In her collection of essays The Black Interior, poet and critic Elizabeth Alexander asks two important questions about the nature of black cultural practice: “What do we learn when we pause at site
Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
Reviewed by: Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation Susana M. Morris (bio) Sklar, Kathryn Kish, and James Brewer Stewart, eds. Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. One of the most famous images of abolitionist iconography is of an enslaved black woman, shackled and on bended knee, arms extended in woeful supplication. This image in many ways exemplified…
Black Girls Are from the Future: Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling
Black Girls Are from the Future:Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling Susana M. Morris (bio) Vampires are a ubiquitous presence in contemporary American culture. The recent popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Twilight Saga, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, the Underworld films, and HBO's True Blood, among other works, not only reflects how saturated popular culture is with vampires but also the enduring importance of these…
The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay
This new directions essay traces the most recent trajectory in the field of hip-hop feminism. To that end, we map the current terrain of hip-hop feminist studies, first by identifying challenges and tensions, then by reviewing current literature and its engagement with these issues, and finally by identifying new and emergent areas for further development of the field. We argue that hip-hop feminism has effectively made space for itself in the br…
A Past Not Pure but Stifled: Vexed Legacies of Leadership in Toni Morrison's Love
In this essay, I argue that Toni Morrison's Love is in the tradition of texts such as Ernest Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Alice Walker's Meridian, and Charles Johnson's Dreamer in that it is a reevaluation of the civil rights movement and a meditation on the long-lasting consequences of civil rights struggles in African American communities. My analysis foregrounds the novel's indictment of paternalistic leadership figures, su…
“Show, Don't Tell”
In this essay, Cooper and Morris review Robin M. Boylorn's award-winning autoethnography, Sweetwater. This book review foregrounds Sweetwater's significant interventions into several fields, including autoethnography, rural studies, Southern studies, and black feminist theory
Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 from Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
Book Review| September 01 2015 Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 from Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995. By Higashida, Cheryl. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. xi, 250 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00; e-book available.From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and…
More than Human: Black Feminisms of the Future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories
In her collection of essays The Black Interior, poet and critic Elizabeth Alexander asks two important questions about the nature of black cultural practice: “What do we learn when we pause at site
An OutKast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
Ethnogothic Film
Ethno-Gothic films frame the African American historical situation within a Gothic context, one that, Ytasha Womack argues, provides ethnic audiences a distinctive way of dealing with cultural trauma. While drawing heavily on a gothic tradition most often associated with horror, it merges that material with a Black cultural context, an iconography that emphasizes a haunting sense of otherness, which it then uses to interrogate the contemporary te…
A New Era in Afrofuturism: An Interview with Sheree Renée Thomas
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works)