Marlon B Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 363955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marlon B Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marlon B |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO M B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The History of Callaloo: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
The History of CallalooAn Interview with Charles Henry Rowell* Marlon B. Ross (bio) and Janice N. Harrington (bio) This interview was conducted on Thursday, November 24, 2016, at Pembroke College Auditorium as part of the Callaloo Conference at Oxford University celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Callaloo. ROSS: I want to say that in addition to poetry, fiction, and cultural and literary studies, Callaloo • Art, the conferences, the creative wri…
Upon Callaloo's Fortieth
Upon Callaloo’s Fortieth Marlon B. Ross (bio) In 1976 Apple Computer was founded and Microsoft registered as a corporation. It is hard for us living now to imagine a time when we did not have access to personal computers that operate our lives through intimate machines that become extensions of our bodily appendages. We have, in other words, experienced a technological revolution in half the average lifespan of an American individual. Yet forty y…
Trans-Atlantic Parochialism
Trans-Atlantic Parochialism Marlon B. Ross (bio) In the very principle of its constitution, in its language, and in its finalities, narrative about Africa is always pretext for a comment about something else, some other place, some other people. More precisely, Africa is the mediation that enables the West to accede to its own subconscious and give a public account of its subjectivity. —Achille Mbembe In James Baldwin’s scandalous 1961 eulogy, “A…
An Interview with Ntozake Shange
An Interview with Ntozake Shange Marlon B. Ross (bio) and Ntozake Shange (bio) The interview was conducted on March 25, 2014, by phone between Charlottesville, VA, and Cheverly, MD. ROSS: What do you see as the lasting legacy of Baraka? SHANGE: The lasting legacy of Baraka. Cullud brilliance! Let’s see... one of the most important, I think, is his... his fifty-year dialogue with African American history. Even in the poetry there are references to…
Baraka's Truth
Baraka’s Truth Marlon B. Ross (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Amiri Baraka October 7, 1934–January 9, 2014 [End Page 471] I am consistently trying to hold on to the truth, and the truth ought to be valuable to anybody, regardless of race or nationality. ... The truth is concrete and it can be used; it must be used by everybody. —Amiri Baraka, Conversations with Amiri Baraka When I first came across these words in Maya Angelou’s 1…
Baldwin's Sissy Heroics
This paper examines James Baldwin's 1972 essay No Name in the Street to interrogate the making of a public sissy artist-activist during the height of the Cold War homo-panic. Placing Baldwin alongside other public sissies of the time, particularly Truman Capote and Little Richard, we can understand his exploitation of this stigmatized role, attacked by black nationalists, to capitalize on an alternative mode of heroism available to both queer and…
What's Love But a Second Hand Emotion: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel
“What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Marlon B. Ross (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Marlon B. Ross Princeton © 2012 [End Page 669] In the midst of a violent, scorching summer, singer-songwriter Frank Ocean plopped a hot declaration of man-on-man passion that created some media sizzle without the expected explosive backlash by ostensibly homophobic hip hop and rap a…
An Anatomy of the Race Icon: Joe Louis as Fetish-Idol in Postmodern America
This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, whose iconography has been adapted to different, and sometimes conflicting, political agendas over five decades, from a talisman of "joy-mad" race consolidation against J…
Queering the African American Essay
Book Review| April 01 2005 QUEERING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAY Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr New York: New York University Press, 2001. xviii + 195 pp. Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper New York: New York University Press, 1999. xvii + 189 pp. Marlon B. Ross Marlon B. Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (2): 301–307. https://doi.org/10.121…
Camping The Dirty Dozens: The Queer Resources of Black Nationalist Invective
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
In Search of Black Men's Masculinities
In Search of Black Men's Masculinities
Baldwin's Sissy Heroics
This paper examines James Baldwin's 1972 essay No Name in the Street to interrogate the making of a public sissy artist-activist during the height of the Cold War homo-panic. Placing Baldwin alongside other public sissies of the time, particularly Truman Capote and Little Richard, we can understand his exploitation of this stigmatized role, attacked by black nationalists, to capitalize on an alternative mode of heroism available to both queer and…
Camping The Dirty Dozens: The Queer Resources of Black Nationalist Invective
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
In Search of Black Men's Masculinities
Camping The Dirty Dozens: The Queer Resources of Black Nationalist Invective
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
Queering the African American Essay
Book Review| April 01 2005 QUEERING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAY Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr New York: New York University Press, 2001. xviii + 195 pp. Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper New York: New York University Press, 1999. xvii + 189 pp. Marlon B. Ross Marlon B. Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (2): 301–307. https://doi.org/10.121…
An Anatomy of the Race Icon: Joe Louis as Fetish-Idol in Postmodern America
This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, whose iconography has been adapted to different, and sometimes conflicting, political agendas over five decades, from a talisman of "joy-mad" race consolidation against J…
Baldwin's Sissy Heroics
This paper examines James Baldwin's 1972 essay No Name in the Street to interrogate the making of a public sissy artist-activist during the height of the Cold War homo-panic. Placing Baldwin alongside other public sissies of the time, particularly Truman Capote and Little Richard, we can understand his exploitation of this stigmatized role, attacked by black nationalists, to capitalize on an alternative mode of heroism available to both queer and…
What's Love But a Second Hand Emotion: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel
“What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Marlon B. Ross (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Marlon B. Ross Princeton © 2012 [End Page 669] In the midst of a violent, scorching summer, singer-songwriter Frank Ocean plopped a hot declaration of man-on-man passion that created some media sizzle without the expected explosive backlash by ostensibly homophobic hip hop and rap a…
An Interview with Ntozake Shange
An Interview with Ntozake Shange Marlon B. Ross (bio) and Ntozake Shange (bio) The interview was conducted on March 25, 2014, by phone between Charlottesville, VA, and Cheverly, MD. ROSS: What do you see as the lasting legacy of Baraka? SHANGE: The lasting legacy of Baraka. Cullud brilliance! Let’s see... one of the most important, I think, is his... his fifty-year dialogue with African American history. Even in the poetry there are references to…
Baraka's Truth
Baraka’s Truth Marlon B. Ross (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Amiri Baraka October 7, 1934–January 9, 2014 [End Page 471] I am consistently trying to hold on to the truth, and the truth ought to be valuable to anybody, regardless of race or nationality. ... The truth is concrete and it can be used; it must be used by everybody. —Amiri Baraka, Conversations with Amiri Baraka When I first came across these words in Maya Angelou’s 1…
Trans-Atlantic Parochialism
Trans-Atlantic Parochialism Marlon B. Ross (bio) In the very principle of its constitution, in its language, and in its finalities, narrative about Africa is always pretext for a comment about something else, some other place, some other people. More precisely, Africa is the mediation that enables the West to accede to its own subconscious and give a public account of its subjectivity. —Achille Mbembe In James Baldwin’s scandalous 1961 eulogy, “A…
The History of Callaloo: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
The History of CallalooAn Interview with Charles Henry Rowell* Marlon B. Ross (bio) and Janice N. Harrington (bio) This interview was conducted on Thursday, November 24, 2016, at Pembroke College Auditorium as part of the Callaloo Conference at Oxford University celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Callaloo. ROSS: I want to say that in addition to poetry, fiction, and cultural and literary studies, Callaloo • Art, the conferences, the creative wri…
Upon Callaloo's Fortieth
Upon Callaloo’s Fortieth Marlon B. Ross (bio) In 1976 Apple Computer was founded and Microsoft registered as a corporation. It is hard for us living now to imagine a time when we did not have access to personal computers that operate our lives through intimate machines that become extensions of our bodily appendages. We have, in other words, experienced a technological revolution in half the average lifespan of an American individual. Yet forty y…
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