Richard Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1526-8338 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Need for a Black Planetarity
“The Need for a Black Planetarity” connects Gayatri Spivak’s revitalization of the project of comparative literature in Death of a Discipline to her analysis of virtual capitalism and urbanity across a range of her works, including “Megacity” and Harlem. This constellation of works, the author argues, illuminates untrodden thematic connections within Spivak’s writing that reveal the importance of her figuration of “planetarity” in Death of a Disc…
Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star
In “Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star?” Richard Purcell looks back on Adam Bradley's Ralph Ellison in Progress: From “Invisible Man” to “Three Days before the Shooting” in light of Edward Snowden's revelations that the White House and the National Security Agency have been secretly collecting metadata on private citizens. The essay asks what Bradley's book and Ellison's fiction have to say about the role of the critic and literature when…
The Prestige of Violence
Book Review| December 01 2015 The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007 Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007. By Bachner, Sally. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2011. vii, 172 pp. Paper, $24.95; e-book, $24.95.Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives. By Seed, David. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press. 2013. 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00; e-book availabl…
Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture
"After World War II, writers and literary critics - black and white - engaged in heated debates centred on the literary and imaginative problem of representing African-Americans in American literature. As the Cold War unfolded, many of these debates began to appear in journals, conferences and other events, including those directly sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other organisations funded by U.S. and British intelligence agenc…
Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma
If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between the two than the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. What Trayvon Martin’s death has brought to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge …
The Enigma of Arrival; Or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting
The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?” is a review essay that looks at the context in which we as readers have come to receive Ellison’s posthumously published novel. It is also a provocation that suggests a way of approaching Ellison’s posthumously published novel that takes seriously Ellison’s move away from the tropes and figures of race that concerned him in his previous work. I ar…
Response to Sami Zubaida
The new state of peace after 11 September 2001
Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma
If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between the two than the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. What Trayvon Martin’s death has brought to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge …
Response to Sami Zubaida
The new state of peace after 11 September 2001
The Enigma of Arrival; Or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting
The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?” is a review essay that looks at the context in which we as readers have come to receive Ellison’s posthumously published novel. It is also a provocation that suggests a way of approaching Ellison’s posthumously published novel that takes seriously Ellison’s move away from the tropes and figures of race that concerned him in his previous work. I ar…
Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture
"After World War II, writers and literary critics - black and white - engaged in heated debates centred on the literary and imaginative problem of representing African-Americans in American literature. As the Cold War unfolded, many of these debates began to appear in journals, conferences and other events, including those directly sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other organisations funded by U.S. and British intelligence agenc…
Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma
If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between the two than the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. What Trayvon Martin’s death has brought to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge …
The Prestige of Violence
Book Review| December 01 2015 The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007 Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007. By Bachner, Sally. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2011. vii, 172 pp. Paper, $24.95; e-book, $24.95.Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives. By Seed, David. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press. 2013. 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00; e-book availabl…
Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star
In “Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star?” Richard Purcell looks back on Adam Bradley's Ralph Ellison in Progress: From “Invisible Man” to “Three Days before the Shooting” in light of Edward Snowden's revelations that the White House and the National Security Agency have been secretly collecting metadata on private citizens. The essay asks what Bradley's book and Ellison's fiction have to say about the role of the critic and literature when…
The Need for a Black Planetarity
“The Need for a Black Planetarity” connects Gayatri Spivak’s revitalization of the project of comparative literature in Death of a Discipline to her analysis of virtual capitalism and urbanity across a range of her works, including “Megacity” and Harlem. This constellation of works, the author argues, illuminates untrodden thematic connections within Spivak’s writing that reveal the importance of her figuration of “planetarity” in Death of a Disc…
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