Mara De Gennaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 2269800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara De Gennaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | De Gennaro |
| SIGNATURE | DE GENNARO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Seattle |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature
Multispecies stories, subaltern futures
“Species interdependence is a well-known fact – except when it comes to humans.” Multispecies ethnography changes that by revealing just how bound we continue to be, across disciplines, by a preoccupation with the human as center and subject and by an allegiance to humanist paradigms of agency and value. Multispecies ethnographies give a different view, or multiplicity of views, with narrators traveling from one field of relations to another. And…
A Return to The Waste Land After Césaire's Cahier
This article argues that reading The Waste Land and the Cahier d'un retour au pays natal together and in light of diasporic, postcolonial, and transnational feminist theory suggests new interpretive possibilities for both poems, and, more broadly, destabilizes an enduring divide between cosmopolitan varieties of canonical Anglo-modernism and transnational, especially francophone, postcolonialisms. The article's central claim is that the transfigu…
States of absence: Stein, Coetzee, and the politics of despair
This essay re-interprets Gertrude Stein's ‘Melanctha’ (1909), now frequently dismissed as racist despite its favorable reception by prominent African-American readers in the early twentieth century, in light of J. M. Coetzee's bracing portrayal of the intersection of racial and sexual discrimination in Disgrace (1999). I argue that Stein's multi-perspectival mode of narrating the story of a sexually exploratory and socially marginalized African-A…
What Remains of Jean Genet
This essay argues that Jean Genet's critique of racism in his play The Blacks shares with his contemporaneous art theory an idealist subordination of historical particularities to what exceeds or endures beyond such particularities. Reading "The Studio of Alberto Giacometti" and "The Strange Word of . . . " together with The Blacks illuminates some otherwise cryptic images of death and ruins in the play and, in the process, indicates the distance…
Fighting "Humanism" on Its Own Terms
mara de gennaro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published an article on Georges Bataille and surrealist primitivism in European Avant-Garde: New Perspectives, and her essay "What Remains of Jean Genet?" will appear in The Yale Journal of Criticism in spring 2003. She is currently completing her dissertation, "Outside of Fiction:Modernist Primitivism, `Race,' and the H…
Fighting "Humanism" on Its Own Terms
mara de gennaro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published an article on Georges Bataille and surrealist primitivism in European Avant-Garde: New Perspectives, and her essay "What Remains of Jean Genet?" will appear in The Yale Journal of Criticism in spring 2003. She is currently completing her dissertation, "Outside of Fiction:Modernist Primitivism, `Race,' and the H…
What Remains of Jean Genet
This essay argues that Jean Genet's critique of racism in his play The Blacks shares with his contemporaneous art theory an idealist subordination of historical particularities to what exceeds or endures beyond such particularities. Reading "The Studio of Alberto Giacometti" and "The Strange Word of . . . " together with The Blacks illuminates some otherwise cryptic images of death and ruins in the play and, in the process, indicates the distance…
Fighting "Humanism" on Its Own Terms
mara de gennaro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published an article on Georges Bataille and surrealist primitivism in European Avant-Garde: New Perspectives, and her essay "What Remains of Jean Genet?" will appear in The Yale Journal of Criticism in spring 2003. She is currently completing her dissertation, "Outside of Fiction:Modernist Primitivism, `Race,' and the H…
States of absence: Stein, Coetzee, and the politics of despair
This essay re-interprets Gertrude Stein's ‘Melanctha’ (1909), now frequently dismissed as racist despite its favorable reception by prominent African-American readers in the early twentieth century, in light of J. M. Coetzee's bracing portrayal of the intersection of racial and sexual discrimination in Disgrace (1999). I argue that Stein's multi-perspectival mode of narrating the story of a sexually exploratory and socially marginalized African-A…
A Return to The Waste Land After Césaire's Cahier
This article argues that reading The Waste Land and the Cahier d'un retour au pays natal together and in light of diasporic, postcolonial, and transnational feminist theory suggests new interpretive possibilities for both poems, and, more broadly, destabilizes an enduring divide between cosmopolitan varieties of canonical Anglo-modernism and transnational, especially francophone, postcolonialisms. The article's central claim is that the transfigu…
Multispecies stories, subaltern futures
“Species interdependence is a well-known fact – except when it comes to humans.” Multispecies ethnography changes that by revealing just how bound we continue to be, across disciplines, by a preoccupation with the human as center and subject and by an allegiance to humanist paradigms of agency and value. Multispecies ethnographies give a different view, or multiplicity of views, with narrators traveling from one field of relations to another. And…
Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works)