Katy Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katy Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated
Ryan's essay analyzes the coordination of the innocence argument and sentimentality in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's TheExonerated (2003), a documentary play based on interviews with people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The play's composition, performance, and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's s…
Warfare in the American Homeland
Reviewed by: Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Katy Ryan Joy James , ed. Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 376 pp. $24.95. Activists and scholars struggle to come up with the comparison, the statistic, the map that will convey the enormity of the penal crisis in the United States: over two million people are locked in cages, and another five …
The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison
Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction
[On slaveships, some Igbos] wished to die on idea that they should then get back to their own country. The captain in order to obviate this idea, thought of an expedient viz. to cut off heads of those who died intimating to them that if determined to go, they must return without heads. The slaves were accordingly brought up to witness operation. One of them by violent exertion got loose and to where nettings had been unloosed in order to empty tu…
Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction
[On slaveships, some Igbos] wished to die on idea that they should then get back to their own country. The captain in order to obviate this idea, thought of an expedient viz. to cut off heads of those who died intimating to them that if determined to go, they must return without heads. The slaves were accordingly brought up to witness operation. One of them by violent exertion got loose and to where nettings had been unloosed in order to empty tu…
Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction
[On slaveships, some Igbos] wished to die on idea that they should then get back to their own country. The captain in order to obviate this idea, thought of an expedient viz. to cut off heads of those who died intimating to them that if determined to go, they must return without heads. The slaves were accordingly brought up to witness operation. One of them by violent exertion got loose and to where nettings had been unloosed in order to empty tu…
The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison
Warfare in the American Homeland
Reviewed by: Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Katy Ryan Joy James , ed. Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 376 pp. $24.95. Activists and scholars struggle to come up with the comparison, the statistic, the map that will convey the enormity of the penal crisis in the United States: over two million people are locked in cages, and another five …
State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated
Ryan's essay analyzes the coordination of the innocence argument and sentimentality in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's TheExonerated (2003), a documentary play based on interviews with people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The play's composition, performance, and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's s…
Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works)