Will Kaufman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Kaufman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufman |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lancashire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Beyond the Grave
In the spring of 2009, I was at the Woody Guthrie Archives, then located in New York City, in the West 57th Street offices of Guthrie’s late manager, Harold Leventhal. I was researching my politica...
Response Essay
“woody guthrie: racial transformation through the Framework of the ‘Long Civil Rights Movement’” presents an interesting and inviting story line tracing Woody Guthrie as the main protagonist, whose egregious renderings of racist song texts evoked critical public reactions by two Black radio listeners and Black print media. These reactions, along with his engagement with the United States Communist Party, led to him to reform his racial outlook an…
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as Will…
To Everything There Is a Season”
Book Review| May 01 2012 “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of SongWinkler, Allan M. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009xvi + 223 pp. + CD, $23.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper) Will Kaufman Will Kaufman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (2): 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1540178 Views Icon Views Article …
Remembrance and Resurrection
This article explores Los Angeles guitarist Ry Cooder’s project to excavate and resurrect through music the lost community of Chávez Ravine, the vibrant Mexican‐American neighbourhood bulldozed in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Dodger baseball stadium. The article draws critical parallels with Marcel Proust, of whom Hannah Segal writes: “On realizing the destruction of a whole world that had been his he decides to write, to sacrific…
On the Psychology of Slavery Reparation
This essay draws on the theories of Melanie Klein and others in the British object relations school to explore the psychological dynamics of the slavery reparations debate in Africa, Britain, and the USA. Kleinian psychology emphasizes the ability to make reparation as an indicator of psychic maturity and argues for the importance of symbolism and creativity in the reparative gesture. At the same time, it situates the inability to make or accept …
The Civil War in American Culture
The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American literature, film, music, electronic media, the marketplace and public performance. This book takes an innovative approach to this great event in American history, exploring its cultural origins and enduring cultural legacy. It focuses upon the place of the Civil War across the broad sweep of American cultural forms and practices and reveals important links between h…
Effect of high up front charges on access to surgery for poor patients at a public hospital in New Mexico
Self-pay patients, regardless of race/ethnicity, have elective surgical procedures cancelled for financial reasons significantly more often than insured patients. The hospital's 50% up-front payment policy represents a significant financial barrier to accessing elective surgical procedures for self-pay patients
Mark Twain's Deformed Conscience
This paper offers a Kleinian analysis of Mark Twain's hostile depictions of the human conscience. Following a brief, initial consideration of such writings as Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, and What Is Man?, the paper focuses on the 1876 short story, "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut," a fictionalized adventure in paranoia and manic defense against a persecutory conscience. A close reading establishes that…
No non-combatants here
They Fought like Demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War DEANNE BLANTON & LAUREN M. COOK, 2002 Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press xiii + 277 pp., ISBN 0 8071 2806 6 Disarming the Nation: women's writing and the American Civil War ELIZABETH YOUNG, 1999 Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press xvi + 389 pp., ISBN 0 226 96088 9 The War Was You and Me: civilians in the American Civil Wa JOAN E. CASHIN (Ed.), 2002 Princeton …
The Comedian as Confidence Man
In this analysis of humourists and their work, Will Kaufman examines the humourist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: the irony fatigue condition
On the Psychology of Slavery Reparation
This essay draws on the theories of Melanie Klein and others in the British object relations school to explore the psychological dynamics of the slavery reparations debate in Africa, Britain, and the USA. Kleinian psychology emphasizes the ability to make reparation as an indicator of psychic maturity and argues for the importance of symbolism and creativity in the reparative gesture. At the same time, it situates the inability to make or accept …
The Comedian as Confidence Man
In this analysis of humourists and their work, Will Kaufman examines the humourist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: the irony fatigue condition
No non-combatants here
They Fought like Demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War DEANNE BLANTON & LAUREN M. COOK, 2002 Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press xiii + 277 pp., ISBN 0 8071 2806 6 Disarming the Nation: women's writing and the American Civil War ELIZABETH YOUNG, 1999 Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press xvi + 389 pp., ISBN 0 226 96088 9 The War Was You and Me: civilians in the American Civil Wa JOAN E. CASHIN (Ed.), 2002 Princeton …
The Civil War in American Culture
The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American literature, film, music, electronic media, the marketplace and public performance. This book takes an innovative approach to this great event in American history, exploring its cultural origins and enduring cultural legacy. It focuses upon the place of the Civil War across the broad sweep of American cultural forms and practices and reveals important links between h…
Effect of high up front charges on access to surgery for poor patients at a public hospital in New Mexico
Self-pay patients, regardless of race/ethnicity, have elective surgical procedures cancelled for financial reasons significantly more often than insured patients. The hospital's 50% up-front payment policy represents a significant financial barrier to accessing elective surgical procedures for self-pay patients
Mark Twain's Deformed Conscience
This paper offers a Kleinian analysis of Mark Twain's hostile depictions of the human conscience. Following a brief, initial consideration of such writings as Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, and What Is Man?, the paper focuses on the 1876 short story, "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut," a fictionalized adventure in paranoia and manic defense against a persecutory conscience. A close reading establishes that…
On the Psychology of Slavery Reparation
This essay draws on the theories of Melanie Klein and others in the British object relations school to explore the psychological dynamics of the slavery reparations debate in Africa, Britain, and the USA. Kleinian psychology emphasizes the ability to make reparation as an indicator of psychic maturity and argues for the importance of symbolism and creativity in the reparative gesture. At the same time, it situates the inability to make or accept …
Remembrance and Resurrection
This article explores Los Angeles guitarist Ry Cooder’s project to excavate and resurrect through music the lost community of Chávez Ravine, the vibrant Mexican‐American neighbourhood bulldozed in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Dodger baseball stadium. The article draws critical parallels with Marcel Proust, of whom Hannah Segal writes: “On realizing the destruction of a whole world that had been his he decides to write, to sacrific…
To Everything There Is a Season”
Book Review| May 01 2012 “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of SongWinkler, Allan M. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009xvi + 223 pp. + CD, $23.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper) Will Kaufman Will Kaufman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (2): 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1540178 Views Icon Views Article …
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as Will…
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2
Response Essay
“woody guthrie: racial transformation through the Framework of the ‘Long Civil Rights Movement’” presents an interesting and inviting story line tracing Woody Guthrie as the main protagonist, whose egregious renderings of racist song texts evoked critical public reactions by two Black radio listeners and Black print media. These reactions, along with his engagement with the United States Communist Party, led to him to reform his racial outlook an…
From Beyond the Grave
In the spring of 2009, I was at the Woody Guthrie Archives, then located in New York City, in the West 57th Street offices of Guthrie’s late manager, Harold Leventhal. I was researching my politica...
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