Brian Norman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Norman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Norman |
| SIGNATURE | NORMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Idaho State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3677-0109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Posthumous Autobiography and Civil Rights Memory
This article traces the tradition of posthumous civil rights autobiographies: life narratives written in the first-person and published after the deaths of their subjects. Examples include works by Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and James Baldwin. Each is a posthumous collaboration with a coauthor and together the tradition points to a key means of extending the legacy of civil rights icons into the pr…
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, inc…
The Survivor’s Dilemma in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
The essay examines Edwidge Danticat’s imaginative retelling of the ill-documented 1937 Haitian massacre in her 1998 novel The Farming of Bones . The novel, as well as Danticat’s work more generally, considers what it means to speak on behalf of the dead, especially victims of atrocity or other injustice. I identify the dilemma of the testifying survivor, who may be received primarily as a voice of the past, more ghost than fellow citizen. I turn …
Signs of the Time: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow (review)
Reviewed by: Signs of the Time: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow Brian Norman Elizabeth Abel. Signs of the Time: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley: U of California P, 2010. 416 pp. $25.95. Elizabeth Abel delivers an impressive study of the visual politics of compulsory race segregation in the United States, especially its most iconic artifact: the segregation sign. Signs of the Times is erudite, meticulous, and ambitious as it trains us to…
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplin…
Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature
Clarifying Blackness in Anglo-Native Fictions: Tom Spanbauer's Cross-Ethnic Borrowings
Anglo writer Tom Spanbauer's The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon (1991) and American-Indian author Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues (1995) illustrate how contemporary multicultural literature uses Jim Crow figures as reference points for sorting intricate social lines among other ethnic groups. Spanbauer also illustrates the related dangers of cross-ethnic pilfering
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
Reviewed by: A Historical Guide to James Baldwin Brian Norman (bio) and Lauren A. Wilson (bio) Field, Douglas, ed. A Historical Guide to James Baldwin. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. A Historical Guide to James Baldwin is welcome and timely. It caps a decade of renewed interest in this major twentieth-century figure and sets the terms of debate for the decade to come. Moreover, as a Baldwin scholar and a student in an undergraduate seminar on Baldwin…
The Historical Uncanny: Segregation Signs in Getting Mother's Body , a Post-Civil Rights American Novel
The segregation sign is an object of desire and scorn in post-civil rights America. We seek them out in museums and public exhibits, asking them to reassure us that Jim Crow is indeed dead, but we wonder if such venues can bear burden of representing lived experience of compulsory race segregation. (1) We also excavate cultural detritus from that era and give it an afterlife, such as in hot collector markets in authentic Jim Crow memorabilia from…
The Addressed and the Redressed: Helen Hunt Jackson's Protest Essay and the US Protest Novel Tradition
If the American protest essay is available to writers who engage in political advocacy, what is its relationship to the much more famous protest novel tradition? Writings in the protest mode, even those by established novelists, are often considered non-literary on the grounds that they are too polemical, ephemeral, or earnestly partisan. This article examines the case of Helen Hunt Jackson, whose protest novel Ramona (1884) was a wild commercial…
"We" In Redux: The Combahee River Collective'sBlack Feminist Statement
brian norman is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Idaho State University where he specializes in twentieth-century literature, especially African American, feminist, and multiethnic u.s. literatures. His current research examines contemporary literary representations of race segregation. He is guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of African American Review, on Representing Segregation. He is the author of Th…
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947
Reviewed by: Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947 Brian Norman (bio) Pfeifer, Michael J. Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Paper. 256 pp. Scholars have long been interested in lynching—especially its role in American life from Jim Crow practices to vigilantism in the American West—and attendant anti-lynching campaigns. With this book, Pfeifer provides a superb stu…
Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays
The Survivor’s Dilemma in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
The essay examines Edwidge Danticat’s imaginative retelling of the ill-documented 1937 Haitian massacre in her 1998 novel The Farming of Bones . The novel, as well as Danticat’s work more generally, considers what it means to speak on behalf of the dead, especially victims of atrocity or other injustice. I identify the dilemma of the testifying survivor, who may be received primarily as a voice of the past, more ghost than fellow citizen. I turn …
Clarifying Blackness in Anglo-Native Fictions: Tom Spanbauer's Cross-Ethnic Borrowings
Anglo writer Tom Spanbauer's The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon (1991) and American-Indian author Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues (1995) illustrate how contemporary multicultural literature uses Jim Crow figures as reference points for sorting intricate social lines among other ethnic groups. Spanbauer also illustrates the related dangers of cross-ethnic pilfering
The Addressed and the Redressed: Helen Hunt Jackson's Protest Essay and the US Protest Novel Tradition
If the American protest essay is available to writers who engage in political advocacy, what is its relationship to the much more famous protest novel tradition? Writings in the protest mode, even those by established novelists, are often considered non-literary on the grounds that they are too polemical, ephemeral, or earnestly partisan. This article examines the case of Helen Hunt Jackson, whose protest novel Ramona (1884) was a wild commercial…
"We" In Redux: The Combahee River Collective'sBlack Feminist Statement
brian norman is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Idaho State University where he specializes in twentieth-century literature, especially African American, feminist, and multiethnic u.s. literatures. His current research examines contemporary literary representations of race segregation. He is guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of African American Review, on Representing Segregation. He is the author of Th…
Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays
Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays
The Addressed and the Redressed: Helen Hunt Jackson's Protest Essay and the US Protest Novel Tradition
If the American protest essay is available to writers who engage in political advocacy, what is its relationship to the much more famous protest novel tradition? Writings in the protest mode, even those by established novelists, are often considered non-literary on the grounds that they are too polemical, ephemeral, or earnestly partisan. This article examines the case of Helen Hunt Jackson, whose protest novel Ramona (1884) was a wild commercial…
"We" In Redux: The Combahee River Collective'sBlack Feminist Statement
brian norman is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Idaho State University where he specializes in twentieth-century literature, especially African American, feminist, and multiethnic u.s. literatures. His current research examines contemporary literary representations of race segregation. He is guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of African American Review, on Representing Segregation. He is the author of Th…
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947
Reviewed by: Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947 Brian Norman (bio) Pfeifer, Michael J. Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Paper. 256 pp. Scholars have long been interested in lynching—especially its role in American life from Jim Crow practices to vigilantism in the American West—and attendant anti-lynching campaigns. With this book, Pfeifer provides a superb stu…
The Historical Uncanny: Segregation Signs in Getting Mother's Body , a Post-Civil Rights American Novel
The segregation sign is an object of desire and scorn in post-civil rights America. We seek them out in museums and public exhibits, asking them to reassure us that Jim Crow is indeed dead, but we wonder if such venues can bear burden of representing lived experience of compulsory race segregation. (1) We also excavate cultural detritus from that era and give it an afterlife, such as in hot collector markets in authentic Jim Crow memorabilia from…
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplin…
Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature
Clarifying Blackness in Anglo-Native Fictions: Tom Spanbauer's Cross-Ethnic Borrowings
Anglo writer Tom Spanbauer's The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon (1991) and American-Indian author Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues (1995) illustrate how contemporary multicultural literature uses Jim Crow figures as reference points for sorting intricate social lines among other ethnic groups. Spanbauer also illustrates the related dangers of cross-ethnic pilfering
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
Reviewed by: A Historical Guide to James Baldwin Brian Norman (bio) and Lauren A. Wilson (bio) Field, Douglas, ed. A Historical Guide to James Baldwin. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. A Historical Guide to James Baldwin is welcome and timely. It caps a decade of renewed interest in this major twentieth-century figure and sets the terms of debate for the decade to come. Moreover, as a Baldwin scholar and a student in an undergraduate seminar on Baldwin…
Signs of the Time: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow (review)
Reviewed by: Signs of the Time: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow Brian Norman Elizabeth Abel. Signs of the Time: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley: U of California P, 2010. 416 pp. $25.95. Elizabeth Abel delivers an impressive study of the visual politics of compulsory race segregation in the United States, especially its most iconic artifact: the segregation sign. Signs of the Times is erudite, meticulous, and ambitious as it trains us to…
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, inc…
The Survivor’s Dilemma in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
The essay examines Edwidge Danticat’s imaginative retelling of the ill-documented 1937 Haitian massacre in her 1998 novel The Farming of Bones . The novel, as well as Danticat’s work more generally, considers what it means to speak on behalf of the dead, especially victims of atrocity or other injustice. I identify the dilemma of the testifying survivor, who may be received primarily as a voice of the past, more ghost than fellow citizen. I turn …
The Posthumous Autobiography and Civil Rights Memory
This article traces the tradition of posthumous civil rights autobiographies: life narratives written in the first-person and published after the deaths of their subjects. Examples include works by Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and James Baldwin. Each is a posthumous collaboration with a coauthor and together the tradition points to a key means of extending the legacy of civil rights icons into the pr…
Sociology (13 works) · History (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works)