Kevin Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2439-6998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Colonial Catharsis
This article is situated in the context of Victorian imaginations saturated with stories of crime and punishment and influenced by Romantic horror and terror aesthetics involving the sublime. The author delineates how the novel’s realism is affixed to an inherent romanticism and argues that the affect and effect of terror and horror resulting from colonial crimes exhibited in the novel allow readers to experience catharsis and to reassert their h…
Censuring the Praise of Alienation
Censuring the Praise of AlienationInterstices of Ante-Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God Kevin Frank (bio) A country’s novels reveal its social condition. -F. J. Pedler, West Africa Alienation has long been a preoccupation of modern African novels and of critical responses to them, which is as one might expect given the writers of these novels are for the most part those who in one way or another were alienated f…
Whether Beast or Human
Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, I argue that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread
Two Kinds of Utility
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Whether Beast or Human
Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, I argue that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread
Censuring the Praise of Alienation
Censuring the Praise of AlienationInterstices of Ante-Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God Kevin Frank (bio) A country’s novels reveal its social condition. -F. J. Pedler, West Africa Alienation has long been a preoccupation of modern African novels and of critical responses to them, which is as one might expect given the writers of these novels are for the most part those who in one way or another were alienated f…
Two Kinds of Utility
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Whether Beast or Human
Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, I argue that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread
Censuring the Praise of Alienation
Censuring the Praise of AlienationInterstices of Ante-Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God Kevin Frank (bio) A country’s novels reveal its social condition. -F. J. Pedler, West Africa Alienation has long been a preoccupation of modern African novels and of critical responses to them, which is as one might expect given the writers of these novels are for the most part those who in one way or another were alienated f…
Colonial Catharsis
This article is situated in the context of Victorian imaginations saturated with stories of crime and punishment and influenced by Romantic horror and terror aesthetics involving the sublime. The author delineates how the novel’s realism is affixed to an inherent romanticism and argues that the affect and effect of terror and horror resulting from colonial crimes exhibited in the novel allow readers to experience catharsis and to reassert their h…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works)