Jennifer Devere Brody
Biographic Data
| ID | 279306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Devere Brody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Devere |
| FAMILY NAME | Brody |
| SIGNATURE | BRODY J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dossier: From the Floor
The 12 short provocations “From the Floor” explore the analog intimacies, memories, textures, practices, vibrancies, and contingencies of the dancefloor
For the Girl without Guile
The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
Just Now Performing America: Queer Takes on the Contemporary
Book Review| January 01 2008 Just Now Performing America: Queer Takes on the Contemporary Jennifer DeVere Brody Jennifer DeVere Brody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (1): 161–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer DeVere Brody; Just Now Performing America: Queer Takes on the Contemporary. GLQ …
An/Other Case of New England Underwriting: Negotiating Race and Property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
Queering racial reproduction: “Unnatural Acts” in Angelina Weld Grimke ́s “The Closing Door”
This essay reads Angelina Weld Grimke ́'s story, “The Closing Door,” (1919) as a literary performance that queers racial reproduction in several ways. The reading focuses on the text's complicated rhetoric, its strategic use of the aural and architectural trope of the door, and its entanglement of the racialized and sexualized discourses of female homoeroticism, lynching, and infanticide
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
Journal Article The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. By Mason Stokes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0- 8223-2626-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2620-5.) Get access Jennifer DeVere Brody Jennifer DeVere Brody Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89,…
Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet's Olympia
Like a manifestant, this text revives the riven, if not rival, discourses of art history and performance studies. Split apart by conventions of seeing and knowing developed in and practiced by the academy, art history and performance studies explicate different textual forms. For example, painting, sculpture, and architecture belong within the purview of art history, whereas plays, parades, and social rituals belong to the field of performance st…
Theory in Motion: A Review of the Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 2000
Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies: Introduction
Given that much recent work in the field of queer studies has employed and deployed ideas of mapping local and global geographies, how might we conceive of the place of black queer studies? Answering this query is one of the goals of this special issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African and African-American Arts and Letters. If "queer studies" as a category has already raised an entire set of questions and issues for scholars, artists, culture pro…
The Returns of 'Cleopatra Jones
"Women of the Harlem Renaissance . Cheryl A. Wall "The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory . Deborah E. McDowell
The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen
American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender
Rereading Race and Gender: When White Women Matter
Rereading Race and Gender: When White Women Matter Jennifer Devere Brody (bio) Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History. By Vron Ware. London: Verso, 1992. x + 263 pages. $59.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. By Ruth Frankenberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. x + 274 pages. $44.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). Memoir of a Race Traitor. By Mab Segrest. Boston: South…
Clare Kendry's "True" Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing
Interpretations of Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have caused it to be eclipsed by Larsen's earlier and more intriguing book, Quicksand (1928).1 This essay reexamines Passing as a work concerned with the simultaneous representation and construction of and especially class, within a circumscribed community. As such, my paper…
Clare Kendry's "True" Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing
Interpretations of Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have caused it to be eclipsed by Larsen's earlier and more intriguing book, Quicksand (1928).1 This essay reexamines Passing as a work concerned with the simultaneous representation and construction of and especially class, within a circumscribed community. As such, my paper…
Rereading Race and Gender: When White Women Matter
Rereading Race and Gender: When White Women Matter Jennifer Devere Brody (bio) Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History. By Vron Ware. London: Verso, 1992. x + 263 pages. $59.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. By Ruth Frankenberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. x + 274 pages. $44.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). Memoir of a Race Traitor. By Mab Segrest. Boston: South…
Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies: Introduction
Given that much recent work in the field of queer studies has employed and deployed ideas of mapping local and global geographies, how might we conceive of the place of black queer studies? Answering this query is one of the goals of this special issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African and African-American Arts and Letters. If "queer studies" as a category has already raised an entire set of questions and issues for scholars, artists, culture pro…
The Returns of 'Cleopatra Jones
Queering racial reproduction: “Unnatural Acts” in Angelina Weld Grimke ́s “The Closing Door”
This essay reads Angelina Weld Grimke ́'s story, “The Closing Door,” (1919) as a literary performance that queers racial reproduction in several ways. The reading focuses on the text's complicated rhetoric, its strategic use of the aural and architectural trope of the door, and its entanglement of the racialized and sexualized discourses of female homoeroticism, lynching, and infanticide
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet's Olympia
Like a manifestant, this text revives the riven, if not rival, discourses of art history and performance studies. Split apart by conventions of seeing and knowing developed in and practiced by the academy, art history and performance studies explicate different textual forms. For example, painting, sculpture, and architecture belong within the purview of art history, whereas plays, parades, and social rituals belong to the field of performance st…
Clare Kendry's "True" Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing
Interpretations of Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have caused it to be eclipsed by Larsen's earlier and more intriguing book, Quicksand (1928).1 This essay reexamines Passing as a work concerned with the simultaneous representation and construction of and especially class, within a circumscribed community. As such, my paper…
American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender
Rereading Race and Gender: When White Women Matter
Rereading Race and Gender: When White Women Matter Jennifer Devere Brody (bio) Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History. By Vron Ware. London: Verso, 1992. x + 263 pages. $59.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. By Ruth Frankenberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. x + 274 pages. $44.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). Memoir of a Race Traitor. By Mab Segrest. Boston: South…
The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen
"Women of the Harlem Renaissance . Cheryl A. Wall "The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory . Deborah E. McDowell
The Returns of 'Cleopatra Jones
Theory in Motion: A Review of the Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 2000
Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies: Introduction
Given that much recent work in the field of queer studies has employed and deployed ideas of mapping local and global geographies, how might we conceive of the place of black queer studies? Answering this query is one of the goals of this special issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African and African-American Arts and Letters. If "queer studies" as a category has already raised an entire set of questions and issues for scholars, artists, culture pro…
Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet's Olympia
Like a manifestant, this text revives the riven, if not rival, discourses of art history and performance studies. Split apart by conventions of seeing and knowing developed in and practiced by the academy, art history and performance studies explicate different textual forms. For example, painting, sculpture, and architecture belong within the purview of art history, whereas plays, parades, and social rituals belong to the field of performance st…
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
Journal Article The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. By Mason Stokes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0- 8223-2626-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2620-5.) Get access Jennifer DeVere Brody Jennifer DeVere Brody Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89,…
Queering racial reproduction: “Unnatural Acts” in Angelina Weld Grimke ́s “The Closing Door”
This essay reads Angelina Weld Grimke ́'s story, “The Closing Door,” (1919) as a literary performance that queers racial reproduction in several ways. The reading focuses on the text's complicated rhetoric, its strategic use of the aural and architectural trope of the door, and its entanglement of the racialized and sexualized discourses of female homoeroticism, lynching, and infanticide
An/Other Case of New England Underwriting: Negotiating Race and Property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
Just Now Performing America: Queer Takes on the Contemporary
Book Review| January 01 2008 Just Now Performing America: Queer Takes on the Contemporary Jennifer DeVere Brody Jennifer DeVere Brody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (1): 161–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer DeVere Brody; Just Now Performing America: Queer Takes on the Contemporary. GLQ …
The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
For the Girl without Guile
Dossier: From the Floor
The 12 short provocations “From the Floor” explore the analog intimacies, memories, textures, practices, vibrancies, and contingencies of the dancefloor
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