Lovalerie King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lovalerie King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lovalerie |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3324-0102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not All That: Autoforms, Narcissism, and the Neoliberal Cultural Landscape
In this paper, I suggest that autoforms—writing like autofiction, autotheory, fictocriticism, and autoethnography—act as cultural interventions in neoliberal landscapes. I suggest they make explicit promises to their readers: that the text will be self-consciously political; that the form will challenge neoliberal logics; and that, counter-intuitively, the subject won’t be the narrator themselves, but the neoliberal landscape they navigate. Neoli…
New Essays on the African American Novel: From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead
This collection contributes to scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American verna
The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the Caribbean. This introductory book designed for students explores Hurston's artistic achievements and her unique character: her staunch individualism, her penchant for drama, her some…
Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature
"Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions between a given code of ethics and a moral course of action. A deft combination of history, literature, law, and economics, King's groundbreaking work highlights the pervasive…
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forge
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical…
Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation: The Blues and Flying Africans in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho
Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation:The Blues and Flying Africans in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho Lovalerie King (bio) Song for Anninho (1981) is Gayl Jones's tribute to the memory of Palmares, a seventeenth-century African state located in the Barriga Mountains between Alagôas and Pernambuco in Brazil.1 Although it began as a quilombo—or what some scholars refer to as a mocambo, much like the maroon communities in the Caribbean and …
Counter-Discourses on the Racialization of Theft and Ethics in Douglass's Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents
That disposition to theft with which they have been branded, must be ascribed to their situation, and not to any depravity of the moral sense. The man, in whose favour no laws of property exist, probably feels himself less bound to respect those made in favour of others. When arguing for ourselves, we lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right: that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of condu…
Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film
A Healing Romance For the Plague Years
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women, to the attention of the reading public. For many readers, this first encounter with a subject previously unfamiliar to them was shocking and unforgettable. Alice Walker decided early in the process of writing her novel that she had no…
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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women, to the attention of the reading public. For many readers, this first encounter with a subject previously unfamiliar to them was shocking and unforgettable. Alice Walker decided early in the process of writing her novel that she had no…
Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon
A Healing Romance For the Plague Years
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
Counter-Discourses on the Racialization of Theft and Ethics in Douglass's Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents
That disposition to theft with which they have been branded, must be ascribed to their situation, and not to any depravity of the moral sense. The man, in whose favour no laws of property exist, probably feels himself less bound to respect those made in favour of others. When arguing for ourselves, we lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right: that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of condu…
Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical…
Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation: The Blues and Flying Africans in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho
Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation:The Blues and Flying Africans in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho Lovalerie King (bio) Song for Anninho (1981) is Gayl Jones's tribute to the memory of Palmares, a seventeenth-century African state located in the Barriga Mountains between Alagôas and Pernambuco in Brazil.1 Although it began as a quilombo—or what some scholars refer to as a mocambo, much like the maroon communities in the Caribbean and …
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forge
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays
Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature
"Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions between a given code of ethics and a moral course of action. A deft combination of history, literature, law, and economics, King's groundbreaking work highlights the pervasive…
New Essays on the African American Novel: From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead
This collection contributes to scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American verna
The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the Caribbean. This introductory book designed for students explores Hurston's artistic achievements and her unique character: her staunch individualism, her penchant for drama, her some…
Not All That: Autoforms, Narcissism, and the Neoliberal Cultural Landscape
In this paper, I suggest that autoforms—writing like autofiction, autotheory, fictocriticism, and autoethnography—act as cultural interventions in neoliberal landscapes. I suggest they make explicit promises to their readers: that the text will be self-consciously political; that the form will challenge neoliberal logics; and that, counter-intuitively, the subject won’t be the narrator themselves, but the neoliberal landscape they navigate. Neoli…
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