Anthony Reed
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Reed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed |
| SIGNATURE | REED A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: On Caribbean Decolonial Futures
In March 2024, Vanderbilt University convened a two-day symposium titled “Refashioning—Postcolonial Pasts, Decolonial Futures.” The title refers to the conclusion of Kamau Brathwaite's canonical 1969 poem “Negus” and David Scott's Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999). The coconveners of this special section of Small Axe question the very concepts and period frames—including postcolonial, decolonial, and anticolonial—in the…
Our Ears Are Audience to the Birth of Song
In March 2023, John Brooks floated the idea of my contributing something to this special issue. Motivated by the topic, I immediately thought of Anthony Reed, whose book Soundworks presents a rigorous and poetic formulation of black sound work and its improvisatory renegotiations of what counts as common sense, both aesthetic and political. Dr. Reed agreed that a conversation would be rewarding, and we came up with a loose plan for collaborating …
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Langston Hughes in Context
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was not a liberal, Marxist, radical, or republican—he was all of these and none. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP’s journal Crisis, Du Bois has been widely studied, both during his life and afterward, for his profound insights into the politics of race and class in America. Throughout his work, Du Bois insisted on the importance of the local—on individual an…
The Erotics of Mourning in Recent Experimental Black Poetry
An unsettled feeling keeps the body front and center. – Claudia Rankine, CitizenThe last few decades, in part aided by a host of formal and informal writers' collectives, has seen a veritable renai
The Only Way Out Is In: Girl 6, Sex Work, and the Color Line
This article situates Spike Lee's neglected collaboration with Suzan-Lori Parks, Girl 6 (US, 1996), as part of a broader shift in Lee's understandings of race in the neoliberal era. Its main character, simply called Girl 6 (Theresa Randle), aspires to be an actress, but after a director humiliates her at an audition by demanding the right to inspect her body, she begins disembodied phone sex work. Most critics of the film either emphasize the mai…
African Space Programs: Spaces and Times of the Black Fantastic
This article traces the resonances and responses to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and the Apollo space missions in the late 1960s in poetry and song, arguing that performances of the black extraterrestrial-donning the perspective and guise of the alien-articulate partially secularized prophesy and non-national planetary perspective. The black extraterrestrial blurs the different senses of historical and narrative possibility to stake ou…
A Woman Is a Conjunction: The Ends of Improvisation in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot
Another Map of the South Side: Native Son as Postcolonial Novel
Another Map of the South Side" traces the resonances between Native Son and the film Bigger watches during a pivotal scene to tease out the international and colonial political contexts of Wright's novel. Reading the film's references to Trader Horn , this essay argues that Bigger Thomas moves between the positions of native and native informant, without fully achieving the position of explorer himself. Mapping Dark Continent tropes onto Chicago'…
Ayin 3: Edge
Ayin 3: Edge* Anthony Reed (bio) give me a blank edge of longing: sodade blue edge beyond the point where lines cross astringent edge of the unsung the unsound - ed - ucations of longing : to long is not to lack we do not want because we are incomplete: no no no : we are complete in longing blithe rustle at the edge of the words that stick to our throats inner sound that unfits our mouths : teach me geometries, not geographies, of desire fractal …
Ayin 4: Unspoke's Requiem
Ayin 4: Unspoke’s Requiem* Anthony Reed (bio) it is 1967 in a club in Seattle, or New York, or where there is music it is now, right now, with the record playing it is tomorrow = our only question :: “Dearly Beloved” churchical McCoy twin fisted bellwether fluted harbinger of a time that is no time time’s suspension not its end (a change to come ((wait)) listening was now their only prayer, their faithful observance Questions are for later and fo…
Mapping the Acehnese Past
Aceh has become best known in our times for its twin disasters—the worst earthquake and tsunami of modern times in December 2004, and a long-running separatist conflict that rent Indonesia for most of its independent history. Although this book emerged from the process of recovery from those traumas, it turns the spotlight on a more positive and neglected claim Aceh has on our attention, as the Southeast Asian maritime state that most successfull…
The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941
African Space Programs: Spaces and Times of the Black Fantastic
This article traces the resonances and responses to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and the Apollo space missions in the late 1960s in poetry and song, arguing that performances of the black extraterrestrial-donning the perspective and guise of the alien-articulate partially secularized prophesy and non-national planetary perspective. The black extraterrestrial blurs the different senses of historical and narrative possibility to stake ou…
The Erotics of Mourning in Recent Experimental Black Poetry
An unsettled feeling keeps the body front and center. – Claudia Rankine, CitizenThe last few decades, in part aided by a host of formal and informal writers' collectives, has seen a veritable renai
Our Ears Are Audience to the Birth of Song
In March 2023, John Brooks floated the idea of my contributing something to this special issue. Motivated by the topic, I immediately thought of Anthony Reed, whose book Soundworks presents a rigorous and poetic formulation of black sound work and its improvisatory renegotiations of what counts as common sense, both aesthetic and political. Dr. Reed agreed that a conversation would be rewarding, and we came up with a loose plan for collaborating …
A Woman Is a Conjunction: The Ends of Improvisation in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot
The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941
Mapping the Acehnese Past
Aceh has become best known in our times for its twin disasters—the worst earthquake and tsunami of modern times in December 2004, and a long-running separatist conflict that rent Indonesia for most of its independent history. Although this book emerged from the process of recovery from those traumas, it turns the spotlight on a more positive and neglected claim Aceh has on our attention, as the Southeast Asian maritime state that most successfull…
Another Map of the South Side: Native Son as Postcolonial Novel
Another Map of the South Side" traces the resonances between Native Son and the film Bigger watches during a pivotal scene to tease out the international and colonial political contexts of Wright's novel. Reading the film's references to Trader Horn , this essay argues that Bigger Thomas moves between the positions of native and native informant, without fully achieving the position of explorer himself. Mapping Dark Continent tropes onto Chicago'…
Ayin 3: Edge
Ayin 3: Edge* Anthony Reed (bio) give me a blank edge of longing: sodade blue edge beyond the point where lines cross astringent edge of the unsung the unsound - ed - ucations of longing : to long is not to lack we do not want because we are incomplete: no no no : we are complete in longing blithe rustle at the edge of the words that stick to our throats inner sound that unfits our mouths : teach me geometries, not geographies, of desire fractal …
Ayin 4: Unspoke's Requiem
Ayin 4: Unspoke’s Requiem* Anthony Reed (bio) it is 1967 in a club in Seattle, or New York, or where there is music it is now, right now, with the record playing it is tomorrow = our only question :: “Dearly Beloved” churchical McCoy twin fisted bellwether fluted harbinger of a time that is no time time’s suspension not its end (a change to come ((wait)) listening was now their only prayer, their faithful observance Questions are for later and fo…
A Woman Is a Conjunction: The Ends of Improvisation in Claude McKay's Banjo: A Story without a Plot
The Only Way Out Is In: Girl 6, Sex Work, and the Color Line
This article situates Spike Lee's neglected collaboration with Suzan-Lori Parks, Girl 6 (US, 1996), as part of a broader shift in Lee's understandings of race in the neoliberal era. Its main character, simply called Girl 6 (Theresa Randle), aspires to be an actress, but after a director humiliates her at an audition by demanding the right to inspect her body, she begins disembodied phone sex work. Most critics of the film either emphasize the mai…
African Space Programs: Spaces and Times of the Black Fantastic
This article traces the resonances and responses to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and the Apollo space missions in the late 1960s in poetry and song, arguing that performances of the black extraterrestrial-donning the perspective and guise of the alien-articulate partially secularized prophesy and non-national planetary perspective. The black extraterrestrial blurs the different senses of historical and narrative possibility to stake ou…
The Erotics of Mourning in Recent Experimental Black Poetry
An unsettled feeling keeps the body front and center. – Claudia Rankine, CitizenThe last few decades, in part aided by a host of formal and informal writers' collectives, has seen a veritable renai
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was not a liberal, Marxist, radical, or republican—he was all of these and none. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP’s journal Crisis, Du Bois has been widely studied, both during his life and afterward, for his profound insights into the politics of race and class in America. Throughout his work, Du Bois insisted on the importance of the local—on individual an…
Langston Hughes in Context
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Our Ears Are Audience to the Birth of Song
In March 2023, John Brooks floated the idea of my contributing something to this special issue. Motivated by the topic, I immediately thought of Anthony Reed, whose book Soundworks presents a rigorous and poetic formulation of black sound work and its improvisatory renegotiations of what counts as common sense, both aesthetic and political. Dr. Reed agreed that a conversation would be rewarding, and we came up with a loose plan for collaborating …
Introduction: On Caribbean Decolonial Futures
In March 2024, Vanderbilt University convened a two-day symposium titled “Refashioning—Postcolonial Pasts, Decolonial Futures.” The title refers to the conclusion of Kamau Brathwaite's canonical 1969 poem “Negus” and David Scott's Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999). The coconveners of this special section of Small Axe question the very concepts and period frames—including postcolonial, decolonial, and anticolonial—in the…
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