Keith Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK K |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1046-1368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African American Gay Men
In the introduction to his absorbing study of Black gay men's artistry and activism in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, critic Darius Bost expounds upon its title: “By naming this proliferation of black gay cultural production a renaissance, I hope to demonstrate the significance of collectivity to black gay aesthetics, cultural production, and politics, and to black gay men's everyday struggles against the various formations of violence ta…
A Mighty Queer Place
Despite Ann Petry's stature as one of the most prominent African American writers from the mid-1940s and the first black woman to hit the million-dollar mark in sales with her iconic protest novel The Street in 1946, Country Place (the second of her three novels), published in 1947, remains relatively neglected if not totally obscure. This complex portrait of a predominantly white New England besieged by a hurricane departs appreciably from her f…
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson
From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson explores how in their own work three major African American w
Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban
With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype used to depict black men as slaves, savages, and threats to civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into Calibans, rather than subverting the paradigm. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban analyzes the modern and postmo…
Melodramas of Beset Black Manhood? Meditations on African-American Masculinity as Scholarly Topos and Social Menace
Given its preeminence in American and African-American literary history, one might think of Ellison's magnum opus as the "Bible" of contemporary African-American writing, functioning as the genesis of postmodern black writing much as Hemingway apotheosized Huckleberry Finn as the grounding narrative for the modern American novel. 1 Certainly, the novel's opening five words, their syntactically discrepant assertion of agency and absence, capture t…
Re-(W)righting Black Male Subjectivity
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1999
New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953. While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its tradition, these scholars posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest…
Claude McKay
A Distaff Dream Deferred? Ann Petry and the Art of Subversion
he has been a prominent subject in literature, especially during first half of twentieth century. Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Miller-all of these writers have depicted characters in search of utopian dream, few of whom find it. Their African-American counterparts' variation on this mythic search has followed a similar pattern in that their characters have also sought psychological and material fulfillment-a fact making Ralph Ellison's declaration that t…
A Distaff Dream Deferred? Ann Petry and the Art of Subversion
he has been a prominent subject in literature, especially during first half of twentieth century. Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Miller-all of these writers have depicted characters in search of utopian dream, few of whom find it. Their African-American counterparts' variation on this mythic search has followed a similar pattern in that their characters have also sought psychological and material fulfillment-a fact making Ralph Ellison's declaration that t…
Melodramas of Beset Black Manhood? Meditations on African-American Masculinity as Scholarly Topos and Social Menace
Given its preeminence in American and African-American literary history, one might think of Ellison's magnum opus as the "Bible" of contemporary African-American writing, functioning as the genesis of postmodern black writing much as Hemingway apotheosized Huckleberry Finn as the grounding narrative for the modern American novel. 1 Certainly, the novel's opening five words, their syntactically discrepant assertion of agency and absence, capture t…
A Distaff Dream Deferred? Ann Petry and the Art of Subversion
he has been a prominent subject in literature, especially during first half of twentieth century. Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Miller-all of these writers have depicted characters in search of utopian dream, few of whom find it. Their African-American counterparts' variation on this mythic search has followed a similar pattern in that their characters have also sought psychological and material fulfillment-a fact making Ralph Ellison's declaration that t…
Claude McKay
New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953. While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its tradition, these scholars posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest…
Re-(W)righting Black Male Subjectivity
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1999
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson
From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson explores how in their own work three major African American w
Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban
With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype used to depict black men as slaves, savages, and threats to civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into Calibans, rather than subverting the paradigm. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban analyzes the modern and postmo…
Melodramas of Beset Black Manhood? Meditations on African-American Masculinity as Scholarly Topos and Social Menace
Given its preeminence in American and African-American literary history, one might think of Ellison's magnum opus as the "Bible" of contemporary African-American writing, functioning as the genesis of postmodern black writing much as Hemingway apotheosized Huckleberry Finn as the grounding narrative for the modern American novel. 1 Certainly, the novel's opening five words, their syntactically discrepant assertion of agency and absence, capture t…
A Mighty Queer Place
Despite Ann Petry's stature as one of the most prominent African American writers from the mid-1940s and the first black woman to hit the million-dollar mark in sales with her iconic protest novel The Street in 1946, Country Place (the second of her three novels), published in 1947, remains relatively neglected if not totally obscure. This complex portrait of a predominantly white New England besieged by a hurricane departs appreciably from her f…
African American Gay Men
In the introduction to his absorbing study of Black gay men's artistry and activism in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, critic Darius Bost expounds upon its title: “By naming this proliferation of black gay cultural production a renaissance, I hope to demonstrate the significance of collectivity to black gay aesthetics, cultural production, and politics, and to black gay men's everyday struggles against the various formations of violence ta…
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