Susan Willi

Biographic Data

ID3612958
NAMESusan Willi
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMEWilli
SIGNATUREWILLI S
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLEAfrican American Review2017

    683 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 683-691© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Willis_Willis 2/14/2018 5:09 PM Page 683 684 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Willis_Willis 2/14/2018 5:09 PM Page 684 SUSAN WILLIS 685 Willis_Willis 2/14/2018 5:09 PM Page 685 686 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Willis_Willis 2/14/2018 5:09 PM Page 686 SUSAN WILLIS 687 Willis_Willis 2/14/2018 5:09 PM Page 687 688 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Willis_…

  • Forensics of Spinach

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2008

    This essay examines media accounts of the 2006 E. coli contamination of bagged spinach to piece together a forensics that demonstrates both the real and symbolic meanings of contamination. Following the path of production from field to processing plant and then to supermarket shelf, the essay maps a landscape of policed spaces and borders that have as much to do with preserving food safety as they do with providing a socially constructed sense of…

  • Living with a Kidney Transplant: A Qualitative Investigation of Quality of Life

    Open AccessAnne Orr, Anne Murray Orr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2007Cited by: 3References: 10

    Research has shown that transplantation improves quality of life for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD), although it does not return to pre-kidney failure levels. This study used focus groups to explore the experience of living with a transplanted kidney. The data were analysed, using thematic analysis, and the following themes were identified: medicalization; fear; gratitude; and coping. These may necessitate constant vigilance, reduce…

  • What Goes Around Comes Around

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESocial Text2003

    Research Article| December 01 2003 What Goes Around Comes Around: A PARABLE OF GLOBAL WARFARE Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 127–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-4_77-127 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; What Goes Around Comes Around: A PARABLE OF GLOBAL WARFARE. Social Text 1 December 2003; 21 (4 (77…

  • Old Glory

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2002Cited by: 1

    Research Article| April 01 2002 Old Glory Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (2): 375–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-2-375 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Old Glory. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2002; 101 (2): 375–383. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-2-375 Dow…

  • Anthrax "Я" Us

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESocial Text2002

    Research Article| December 01 2002 Anthrax “Я” Us Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 19–28. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-4_73-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Anthrax “Я” Us. Social Text 1 December 2002; 20 (4 (73)): 19–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-4_73-19 Download citation file: Zotero …

  • Looking at the Zoo

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1999Cited by: 3

    Research Article| October 01 1999 Looking at the Zoo Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 669–687. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-4-669 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Looking at the Zoo. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1999; 98 (4): 669–687. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00…

  • Life for Beginners

    Open AccessLynn Spigel, Susan Willi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1995Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Disney World: Public Use/Private State

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1993

    Research Article| January 01 1993 Disney World: Public Use/Private State Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 119–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-119 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Disney World: Public Use/Private State. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1993; 92 (1): …

  • Critical Vantage Points on Disney's World

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1993

    Research Article| January 01 1993 Critical Vantage Points on Disney’s World Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Critical Vantage Points on Disney’s World. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1993; 92 (1): …

  • Hardcore: Subculture American Style

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLECritical Inquiry1993Cited by: 13

  • A primer for daily life

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisBOOKA primer for daily life1991

  • Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1990

    Research Article| October 01 1990 Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (4): 761–785. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-89-4-761 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 19…

  • Reinventing History/Imagining the Future

    Hazel V Carby, Susan Willi et al.ARTICLEBlack American Literature Forum1989

  • Black Women Writers: Journeying Along Motherlines

    Cheryl A Wall, Karla F C Holloway et al.ARTICLECallaloo1989

  • Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience

    Janice Farrar Thaddeus, Susan Willi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1988Cited by: 16

    With a series of brilliant and provocative essays, Susan Willis has produced the first sustained, book-length study of fiction by contemporary American black women writers. Using a Marxist approach, Willis places the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara in a critical context that includes history, culture, politics, and literary theory. Willis work promises to make a major impact among sch…

  • Gender as Commodity

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1987Cited by: 4

    Research Article| October 01 1987 Gender as Commodity Susan Willis Susan Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (4): 403–421. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-4-403 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Willis; Gender as Commodity. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1987; 86 (4): 403–421. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/…

  • Learning from the Banana

    Open AccessSusan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1987Cited by: 3

    IN WHAT FOLLOWS I WANT TO SUGGEST A METHOD FOR LOOKING AT THE PHENOMENA of daily life that draws on the historical methodology defined by Walter Benjamin in his Arcades Project. While Das Passagen-Werk was published posthumously, I think the collection reveals enough about Benjamin's concept of history as it relates to the present and as it is articulated culturally to use this work as a basis for developing analyses of contemporary culture. What…

  • A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESocial Text1980

  • Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: "Contradictions and Dependency in "The Bear

    Susan Willi, Susan WillisARTICLESocial Text1979

    Faulkner's writing presents literary criticism with a challenge at all levels of its operation, from style and the production of sentences to the interweaving of mythic and realistic modes of narration. Faulkner's period cannot be adequately understood in terms of a general history of the American 30s or in terms of the narrower concerns of rural populism. His work, like that of modernism in general, has its genesis in a society whose traditional…