Bryan Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Lives Matter and Communications Technologies
It has been often noted that the history of Black American activism from slavery to the present has been catalyzed by developments in communications technology. This has been especially true in moments of crisis when activists and intellectuals have moved quickly to take advantage of sudden shifts in the media environment to convey their message and organize themselves. The posters and pamphlets that detonated the British movement against the tra…
The Tar Baby: A Global History
The tar baby: A Global History
Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a f…
Epilogue
This concluding chapter considers the tar baby story as the most celebrated, the most thickly documented, and the most historiographically significant case in the global trickster tradition. The established ethnographic approach to the tar baby has led people to misconstrue the ways in which the story seeks to resolve the problems it sets before them. Restored to its full range, the tar baby presents nothing less than a comprehensive philosophy o…
Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (review)
Reviewed by: Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black Bryan Wagner Heather S. Nathans. Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 288 pp. $94.99. Ambitious in scope, Heather Nathans’s Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage shows how public debates over slavery and black equality were represented in the theater during the decades be…
Global Souths
Global Souths Bryan Wagner (bio) Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature. By Jennifer Rae Greeson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 368 pages. $39.95 (cloth). American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. By Matthew Pratt Guterl. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. 250 pages. $41.50 (cloth). Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Glob…
Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery
W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary—Wagner gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the black vernacular tradition's ongoing engagement with the law
Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupé
This essay assesses the origin myths that have attached to Congo Square and its most famous dancer, Bras-Coupé, inorder to reflect upon their import within modern theories of blackness
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America; At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
Book Review| December 01 2003 Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary By Paul Giles. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 337 pp. Cloth,$64.95; paper, $21.95. Bryan Wagner Bryan Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 901–903. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-901 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence
American Literature - Volume 73, Number 2, June 2001
Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupé
This essay assesses the origin myths that have attached to Congo Square and its most famous dancer, Bras-Coupé, inorder to reflect upon their import within modern theories of blackness
Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence
American Literature - Volume 73, Number 2, June 2001
Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence
American Literature - Volume 73, Number 2, June 2001
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America; At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
Book Review| December 01 2003 Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary By Paul Giles. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 337 pp. Cloth,$64.95; paper, $21.95. Bryan Wagner Bryan Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 901–903. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-901 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupé
This essay assesses the origin myths that have attached to Congo Square and its most famous dancer, Bras-Coupé, inorder to reflect upon their import within modern theories of blackness
Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery
W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary—Wagner gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the black vernacular tradition's ongoing engagement with the law
Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (review)
Reviewed by: Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black Bryan Wagner Heather S. Nathans. Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 288 pp. $94.99. Ambitious in scope, Heather Nathans’s Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage shows how public debates over slavery and black equality were represented in the theater during the decades be…
Global Souths
Global Souths Bryan Wagner (bio) Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature. By Jennifer Rae Greeson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 368 pages. $39.95 (cloth). American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. By Matthew Pratt Guterl. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. 250 pages. $41.50 (cloth). Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Glob…
The Tar Baby: A Global History
The tar baby: A Global History
Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a f…
Epilogue
This concluding chapter considers the tar baby story as the most celebrated, the most thickly documented, and the most historiographically significant case in the global trickster tradition. The established ethnographic approach to the tar baby has led people to misconstrue the ways in which the story seeks to resolve the problems it sets before them. Restored to its full range, the tar baby presents nothing less than a comprehensive philosophy o…
Black Lives Matter and Communications Technologies
It has been often noted that the history of Black American activism from slavery to the present has been catalyzed by developments in communications technology. This has been especially true in moments of crisis when activists and intellectuals have moved quickly to take advantage of sudden shifts in the media environment to convey their message and organize themselves. The posters and pamphlets that detonated the British movement against the tra…
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