Jesse Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY J |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8866-1679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward a Theory of the Black Superaddressee
This paper argues for the usefulness of Bakhtin's concept of the superaddressee to adjudicating debates at the intersection of black literary studies and novel theory. Reframing Bakhtin's theory of a third-party addressee that stands outside and above the social order allows for a new way of thinking about the function of rhetorical address with respect to arguments advanced by Kenneth Warren and Stephen Best about the value and coherence of grou…
On Being Beside Oneself
How should we think about the impact of identity upon our aesthetic understanding of a literary text that we propose to evaluate critically? This paper addresses this question by proposing the idea of "being beside" one's identities rather than within them, and examines how such a posture informs readings of two sources of longstanding aesthetic interest to the author. The first is a sentence that appears in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way ; the seco…
Form and the Anticolonial Novel
The category of the postcolonial novel is familiar, but what makes a novel anticolonial? This article attempts to answer this question by reconstructing a genealogy of anticolonial fiction. I argue that these novels are preeminently the product of a social and intellectual class that inherits Franco Moretti's novel of bourgeois subject formation with all the attendant problems and opportunities of traditional bourgeois realism, while seeking to r…
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
Reviewed by: On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay by Cheryl A. Wall Jesse McCarthy Cheryl A. Wall. On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2018. 288 pp. $29.95. This review was completed and submitted to the journal before I learned of Cheryl Wall's passing on April 4, 2020. Like so many in the field, I owe an enormous debt to her pioneering sc…
Conditions of the Present
Reviewed by: Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett Jesse McCarthy Lindon Barrett. Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays. Ed. Janet Neary. Durham: Duke UP, 2018. 400 pp. $27.50. When Lindon Barrett was murdered in 2008, it was a personal tragedy for his family and for the many friends and colleagues who were inspired by his work and loved him dearly. It was also an incalculable loss for black studies, a field whose pres…
Proust au téléphone
Au cœur de la Recherche du temps perdu se trouve une réflexion sur les nouvelles technologies téléphoniques qui révolutionnent la phénoménologie de l’écoute et de la communication au début du XXe siècle. L’expérience de la parole à distance, le relais ou la reproduction des sources sonores relayées et, surtout, l’écoute médiatisée ou l’« auscultation » dominent l’imaginaire de l’auralité dans l’œuvre proustien. L’article se propose d’appliquer le…
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Proust au téléphone
Au cœur de la Recherche du temps perdu se trouve une réflexion sur les nouvelles technologies téléphoniques qui révolutionnent la phénoménologie de l’écoute et de la communication au début du XXe siècle. L’expérience de la parole à distance, le relais ou la reproduction des sources sonores relayées et, surtout, l’écoute médiatisée ou l’« auscultation » dominent l’imaginaire de l’auralité dans l’œuvre proustien. L’article se propose d’appliquer le…
Conditions of the Present
Reviewed by: Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett Jesse McCarthy Lindon Barrett. Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays. Ed. Janet Neary. Durham: Duke UP, 2018. 400 pp. $27.50. When Lindon Barrett was murdered in 2008, it was a personal tragedy for his family and for the many friends and colleagues who were inspired by his work and loved him dearly. It was also an incalculable loss for black studies, a field whose pres…
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
Reviewed by: On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay by Cheryl A. Wall Jesse McCarthy Cheryl A. Wall. On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2018. 288 pp. $29.95. This review was completed and submitted to the journal before I learned of Cheryl Wall's passing on April 4, 2020. Like so many in the field, I owe an enormous debt to her pioneering sc…
Form and the Anticolonial Novel
The category of the postcolonial novel is familiar, but what makes a novel anticolonial? This article attempts to answer this question by reconstructing a genealogy of anticolonial fiction. I argue that these novels are preeminently the product of a social and intellectual class that inherits Franco Moretti's novel of bourgeois subject formation with all the attendant problems and opportunities of traditional bourgeois realism, while seeking to r…
On Being Beside Oneself
How should we think about the impact of identity upon our aesthetic understanding of a literary text that we propose to evaluate critically? This paper addresses this question by proposing the idea of "being beside" one's identities rather than within them, and examines how such a posture informs readings of two sources of longstanding aesthetic interest to the author. The first is a sentence that appears in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way ; the seco…
Toward a Theory of the Black Superaddressee
This paper argues for the usefulness of Bakhtin's concept of the superaddressee to adjudicating debates at the intersection of black literary studies and novel theory. Reframing Bakhtin's theory of a third-party addressee that stands outside and above the social order allows for a new way of thinking about the function of rhetorical address with respect to arguments advanced by Kenneth Warren and Stephen Best about the value and coherence of grou…
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