Laura A Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura A Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura A |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS L A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"What's in a Name?" That Which We Call Brilliance by Any Other Name Would Read as Festus Claudius McKay
Claude McKay, the canonically renowned Harlem Renaissance poet, has become a central subject in current sexuality, African diaspora, and postmodern Marxist studies. This review essay highlights the different contributions of four recent book-length studies specifically on McKay; it situates their theoretical contexts within larger critical dialogues and historical inquiries concerning black creative expression and transnational ideological spaces…
Hybrid Italians, Diasporic Africans
Hybrid Italians, Diasporic AfricansWho's/Whose Meticcio?1 Laura A. Harris (bio) In this essay I examine discourses of race and nation in contemporary Italian representations of African-ness and cultural hybridity. In particular, I devote attention to an analysis of Erminia Dell'Oro's commercially successful Italian novel L'abbandono, Una Storia Eritrea (1991), which depicts Italy's colonial history in Eritrea primarily through protagonists of Eri…
Femme/Butch Family Romances
My essay theorizes femme/butch family romances against the grain of dominant feminist and lesbian thought that desexualizes the space of mother/daughter desire. I do so through a reading/recoding of the infringing incestuous mommie-boy desires that surface in an archetypal lesbian novel, Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart
Black Feminism and Queer Families
In Vintage: Families of Value (1995) Anita Jones proclaims, have chose to do like my mother and be a warrior... 'cause I'm a lesbian. My life has evolved around women being sensual, and I rather enjoy it. Speaking forthrightly to the camera, Jones identifies some of the larger challenges raised by black women's lived experiences and by black feminist paradigms working to disrupt the silences surrounding black female sexualities. In Thomas Allen H…
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Femme/Butch Family Romances
My essay theorizes femme/butch family romances against the grain of dominant feminist and lesbian thought that desexualizes the space of mother/daughter desire. I do so through a reading/recoding of the infringing incestuous mommie-boy desires that surface in an archetypal lesbian novel, Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart
Black Feminism and Queer Families
In Vintage: Families of Value (1995) Anita Jones proclaims, have chose to do like my mother and be a warrior... 'cause I'm a lesbian. My life has evolved around women being sensual, and I rather enjoy it. Speaking forthrightly to the camera, Jones identifies some of the larger challenges raised by black women's lived experiences and by black feminist paradigms working to disrupt the silences surrounding black female sexualities. In Thomas Allen H…
Hybrid Italians, Diasporic Africans
Hybrid Italians, Diasporic AfricansWho's/Whose Meticcio?1 Laura A. Harris (bio) In this essay I examine discourses of race and nation in contemporary Italian representations of African-ness and cultural hybridity. In particular, I devote attention to an analysis of Erminia Dell'Oro's commercially successful Italian novel L'abbandono, Una Storia Eritrea (1991), which depicts Italy's colonial history in Eritrea primarily through protagonists of Eri…
"What's in a Name?" That Which We Call Brilliance by Any Other Name Would Read as Festus Claudius McKay
Claude McKay, the canonically renowned Harlem Renaissance poet, has become a central subject in current sexuality, African diaspora, and postmodern Marxist studies. This review essay highlights the different contributions of four recent book-length studies specifically on McKay; it situates their theoretical contexts within larger critical dialogues and historical inquiries concerning black creative expression and transnational ideological spaces…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Lesbian (2 works) · Literature (2 works)