Lara Langer Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara Langer Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara Langer |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN L L |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1412-2001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"The Heart of Africa" in the Shadow of Early Zionism
This essay reads Telassar, the hidden Ethiopian city at the heart of Pauline Hopkins's psychological-historical-occult mystery Of One Blood (1902–3), in relation to a better-known contemporaneous project for the regeneration of a diasporic people: Zionism. I argue that in Of One Blood , Hopkins, whose wide-ranging writing made her a key figure of early twentieth-century Black literary history, reworks elements of George Eliot's 1876 novel Daniel …
Going Underground
First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking out versions of the underground that were left behind along the way. Outlining how the underground’s figurative sense first took shape through the ass…
The Blackness of Darkness”
This article considers Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave as an unexpected site for nineteenth-century theorizations of racialized Blackness. Mammoth Cave became a major tourist attraction in the 1840s, generating a host of guidebooks, travel accounts, magazine illustrations, panoramas, newspaper articles, and fiction. Crucial to its fame was the fact that the guides who led visitors through the cave were enslaved men. This article argues that white writers…
Solomon Northup's Singing Book
This essay examines the musical score included at the end of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853), a setting of a song called “Roaring River” that Northup earlier recounted enslaved people singing as they patted juba. I argue that “Roaring River” stages questions that the narrative itself cannot ask about how to represent the experience of slavery once one is outside of it. In particular, it asks how to love what’s made in the shadow of …
Black Print Unbound
Reviewed by: Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture by Eric Gardner Lara Langer Cohen Eric Gardner.Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. 329pp. $29.95. Eric Gardner’s Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture is a rare and invaluable book: an intensi…
Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue
Early African American Print Culture
Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading.
Democratic Representations
Must expose the wires.-EdgarAllan Poe
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Democratic Representations
Must expose the wires.-EdgarAllan Poe
Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue
Early African American Print Culture
Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading.
Black Print Unbound
Reviewed by: Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture by Eric Gardner Lara Langer Cohen Eric Gardner.Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. 329pp. $29.95. Eric Gardner’s Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture is a rare and invaluable book: an intensi…
Solomon Northup's Singing Book
This essay examines the musical score included at the end of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853), a setting of a song called “Roaring River” that Northup earlier recounted enslaved people singing as they patted juba. I argue that “Roaring River” stages questions that the narrative itself cannot ask about how to represent the experience of slavery once one is outside of it. In particular, it asks how to love what’s made in the shadow of …
The Blackness of Darkness”
This article considers Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave as an unexpected site for nineteenth-century theorizations of racialized Blackness. Mammoth Cave became a major tourist attraction in the 1840s, generating a host of guidebooks, travel accounts, magazine illustrations, panoramas, newspaper articles, and fiction. Crucial to its fame was the fact that the guides who led visitors through the cave were enslaved men. This article argues that white writers…
Going Underground
First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking out versions of the underground that were left behind along the way. Outlining how the underground’s figurative sense first took shape through the ass…
"The Heart of Africa" in the Shadow of Early Zionism
This essay reads Telassar, the hidden Ethiopian city at the heart of Pauline Hopkins's psychological-historical-occult mystery Of One Blood (1902–3), in relation to a better-known contemporaneous project for the regeneration of a diasporic people: Zionism. I argue that in Of One Blood , Hopkins, whose wide-ranging writing made her a key figure of early twentieth-century Black literary history, reworks elements of George Eliot's 1876 novel Daniel …
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