Jennie Lightweis-Goff
Biographic Data
| ID | 338441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennie Lightweis-Goff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightweis-Goff |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTWEIS-GOFF J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interior Travelogues and 'Inside Views: Gender, Urbanity, and the Genre of the Slave Narrative
In US culture, slavery is remembered as an agricultural system bound to expansive territory rather than as an ideological system bound to urban spaces. This fixed notion persists despite the fact that nearly a fifth of all American slaves were captive in cities, where African African women were significantly overrepresented among those who did both physical and emotional labor. The elision of urban slaves is particularly curious because of the ce…
Peculiar and Characteristic: New Orleans's Exceptionalism from Olmsted to the Deluge
Two hundred years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to limn the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, demonstrating its seamlessness with the national body in direct travel to the West Coast, a different kind of travel narrative-one that demonstrated New Orleans's profound discontinuity from the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina-dominated the national conversation about the city's suffering and recovery. This paper see…
Blood at the Root: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of English, 2009.
"Long Time I Trabble on de Way": Stephen Foster's Conversion Narrative
Blood at the Root: Lynching, Memory, and Freudian Group Psychology
Interior Travelogues and 'Inside Views: Gender, Urbanity, and the Genre of the Slave Narrative
In US culture, slavery is remembered as an agricultural system bound to expansive territory rather than as an ideological system bound to urban spaces. This fixed notion persists despite the fact that nearly a fifth of all American slaves were captive in cities, where African African women were significantly overrepresented among those who did both physical and emotional labor. The elision of urban slaves is particularly curious because of the ce…
Peculiar and Characteristic: New Orleans's Exceptionalism from Olmsted to the Deluge
Two hundred years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to limn the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, demonstrating its seamlessness with the national body in direct travel to the West Coast, a different kind of travel narrative-one that demonstrated New Orleans's profound discontinuity from the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina-dominated the national conversation about the city's suffering and recovery. This paper see…
Blood at the Root: Lynching, Memory, and Freudian Group Psychology
Blood at the Root: Lynching, Memory, and Freudian Group Psychology
"Long Time I Trabble on de Way": Stephen Foster's Conversion Narrative
Blood at the Root: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of English, 2009.
Peculiar and Characteristic: New Orleans's Exceptionalism from Olmsted to the Deluge
Two hundred years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to limn the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, demonstrating its seamlessness with the national body in direct travel to the West Coast, a different kind of travel narrative-one that demonstrated New Orleans's profound discontinuity from the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina-dominated the national conversation about the city's suffering and recovery. This paper see…
Interior Travelogues and 'Inside Views: Gender, Urbanity, and the Genre of the Slave Narrative
In US culture, slavery is remembered as an agricultural system bound to expansive territory rather than as an ideological system bound to urban spaces. This fixed notion persists despite the fact that nearly a fifth of all American slaves were captive in cities, where African African women were significantly overrepresented among those who did both physical and emotional labor. The elision of urban slaves is particularly curious because of the ce…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)