Sara Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Photograph as History
Research Article| September 01 2006 The Photograph as History: Richard Wright, Black Power, and Narratives of the Nation Sara Blair Sara Blair University of Michigan [email protected] Sara Blair teaches in the Department of English and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her recent work focuses on the engagement of twentieth-century writers with photography, and includes “Jewish America through the Lens,” in Jewish in A…
Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity
Rereading literary histories from the vantage point of the Lower East Side foregrounds the unacknowledged power of immigrant culture-makers and of Yiddishkeit institutions as a shaping force in the creation of an American cultural response to the challenges of modernity. Abraham Cahan's short fiction in English limns the paradox for the immigrant intellectual whose engagements with "native" culture are both socially transformative and invisible. …
Jewish in America
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION | A two-volume special issue of the journal Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman of the University of Michigan, brings together academic essays, high-level journalism, personal narratives, fiction, poetry and visual art responding to the transformations of experience in the United States during the last fifty years, and speculatively, extending into the twenty-first century. In the following …
Shattered Subjects
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
Introduction: making a difference: Henry James, literary culture, and racial theater 1. First impressions: 'Questions of Ethnography' and the art of travel 2. 'Preparation for culture': Anthony Trollope, the American Century, and the fiction of freedom 3. 'Trying to be Natural': authorship and the power of type in The Princess Casamassima 4. James, Jack the Ripper, and the cosmopolitan Jew: staging authorship in The Tragic Muse 5. Documenting the…
Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
Documenting America
The Henry James Review - Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 1995
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Documenting America
The Henry James Review - Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 1995
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
Introduction: making a difference: Henry James, literary culture, and racial theater 1. First impressions: 'Questions of Ethnography' and the art of travel 2. 'Preparation for culture': Anthony Trollope, the American Century, and the fiction of freedom 3. 'Trying to be Natural': authorship and the power of type in The Princess Casamassima 4. James, Jack the Ripper, and the cosmopolitan Jew: staging authorship in The Tragic Muse 5. Documenting the…
Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
Shattered Subjects
Jewish in America
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION | A two-volume special issue of the journal Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman of the University of Michigan, brings together academic essays, high-level journalism, personal narratives, fiction, poetry and visual art responding to the transformations of experience in the United States during the last fifty years, and speculatively, extending into the twenty-first century. In the following …
Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity
Rereading literary histories from the vantage point of the Lower East Side foregrounds the unacknowledged power of immigrant culture-makers and of Yiddishkeit institutions as a shaping force in the creation of an American cultural response to the challenges of modernity. Abraham Cahan's short fiction in English limns the paradox for the immigrant intellectual whose engagements with "native" culture are both socially transformative and invisible. …
The Photograph as History
Research Article| September 01 2006 The Photograph as History: Richard Wright, Black Power, and Narratives of the Nation Sara Blair Sara Blair University of Michigan [email protected] Sara Blair teaches in the Department of English and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her recent work focuses on the engagement of twentieth-century writers with photography, and includes “Jewish America through the Lens,” in Jewish in A…
History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)