Erica L Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica L Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica L |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pace University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7290-1885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A modernist meeting in Montparnasse: Precarity and freedom in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight and Cora Sandel’s Alberta and Freedom
When Jean Rhys was living in Paris in the years between 1918 and 1921 it is entirely likely that she at least saw the Norwegian writer Cora Sandel in the Dome café or elsewhere around Montparnasse, at Sylvia Beach's book store, or on the streets that form a character in both writers' Paris novels. Sandel, who was ten years older than Rhys, lived in Montparnasse between 1906 and 1921. Within just a few years of one another these two writers publis…
Comparative counter-archival creativity: M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! and La Vaughn Belle’s Chaney
This article presents a comparative analysis of works of Caribbean art and literature that engage in a mutual project of addressing the paradox of the colonial archive. Trinidadian-Canadian writer M. NourbeSe Philip crafted her long poem Zong! from an eighteenth-century legal document about the murder of 132 enslaved Africans onboard the slave ship of the same name. Exposing the dehumanizing language of historical record from which she nonetheles…
Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Encryption as Transmission: The Secret Gardens of Wide Sargasso Sea
Memory as Colonial Capital: Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English
Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives, edited by Mary Wilson & Kerry L. Johnson
Assessing Access: Is There Educational Equity Within Urban Schooling
Identifying sources of variation has been used extensively in educational research as a tool to identify potential drives of variances in student achievement. However, prior research predominantly relied on findings from national- or international-level data, and thus their conclusions remain very broad-based. This study contributes new insight by assessing if and where there is variation in standardized testing performance for entire populations…
Building the Neo-Archive
Dionne Brand's memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, touches on the author's childhood in Trinidad and adulthood in Canada but is equally concerned with understanding and intervening in the larger histories among which Brand situates her identity. A lush work of memories, poetry, and criticism, the work presents vignettes from the author's life alongside her meditations on writing, history, mapmaking, and most important for …
Envie Et Survie”: The Paradox of Postcolonial Nostalgia in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Chemin-D’école
The first section of Patrick Chamoiseau's autobiographical novel, Chemin d'école (Paris: Gallimard, 1996), is entitled "Envie," while the second section is "Survie." As Chamoiseau recounts his youth in Martinique, he tempers his nostalgic longing for a childhood full of brilliant discovery with a deft and comic portrait of the ironies of his colonial education. The initial joy he takes in learning to write is so absolute and essential that writin…
Provincializing Europe: The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
Provincializing Europe':The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River Erica L. Johnson (bio) V. S. Naipaul is somewhat infamous in postcolonial circles. As a world traveler and chronicler of global history, from the American South and Islamic fundamentalism in Iran to Indian diasporic histories on four continents, he is regarded alternately as a leading critic of the colonial condition and as an intellectual collaborator w…
Ghostwriting Transnational Histories in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise
In this article I argue that Cliff's portrait of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant participates in a genre of subaltern historiography that I term "ghostwriting." Cliff was inspired to write about Pleasant, who provided major funding and leadership in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859-and indeed the stone that marks her grave reads simply: "M. E. P. She was …
Auto-Ghostwriting Smile, Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Jean Rhys's Smile, Please: An Unfinished Autobiography was not actually written by Rhys, but by novelist David Plante in an act that can only be characterized as ghostwriting. This essay theorizes ghostwriting in the context of autobiography and life writing, and shows how the ghostwriting process results in contested layers of written and spoken texts. Rhys resists the ghostwriter's displacement of her spoken text by quoting her own written text…
Unforgetting Trauma: Dionne Brand's Haunted Histories
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Contours of Travel and Exile in The Voyage Out
Contours of Travel and Exile in The Voyage Out Erica L. Johnson Virginia Woolf makes the geographical point of departure for The Voyage Out clear in the opening pages of the novel as the Ambroses make thenway to the ship that will transport them to their vacation house in South America. Straggling through a particularly industrial London cityscape, Helen Ambrose takes in motor cars and factory chimneys, and notes the tripartite class system of th…
Provincializing Europe: The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
Provincializing Europe':The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River Erica L. Johnson (bio) V. S. Naipaul is somewhat infamous in postcolonial circles. As a world traveler and chronicler of global history, from the American South and Islamic fundamentalism in Iran to Indian diasporic histories on four continents, he is regarded alternately as a leading critic of the colonial condition and as an intellectual collaborator w…
Assessing Access: Is There Educational Equity Within Urban Schooling
Identifying sources of variation has been used extensively in educational research as a tool to identify potential drives of variances in student achievement. However, prior research predominantly relied on findings from national- or international-level data, and thus their conclusions remain very broad-based. This study contributes new insight by assessing if and where there is variation in standardized testing performance for entire populations…
Envie Et Survie”: The Paradox of Postcolonial Nostalgia in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Chemin-D’école
The first section of Patrick Chamoiseau's autobiographical novel, Chemin d'école (Paris: Gallimard, 1996), is entitled "Envie," while the second section is "Survie." As Chamoiseau recounts his youth in Martinique, he tempers his nostalgic longing for a childhood full of brilliant discovery with a deft and comic portrait of the ironies of his colonial education. The initial joy he takes in learning to write is so absolute and essential that writin…
Contours of Travel and Exile in The Voyage Out
Contours of Travel and Exile in The Voyage Out Erica L. Johnson Virginia Woolf makes the geographical point of departure for The Voyage Out clear in the opening pages of the novel as the Ambroses make thenway to the ship that will transport them to their vacation house in South America. Straggling through a particularly industrial London cityscape, Helen Ambrose takes in motor cars and factory chimneys, and notes the tripartite class system of th…
Unforgetting Trauma: Dionne Brand's Haunted Histories
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Auto-Ghostwriting Smile, Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Jean Rhys's Smile, Please: An Unfinished Autobiography was not actually written by Rhys, but by novelist David Plante in an act that can only be characterized as ghostwriting. This essay theorizes ghostwriting in the context of autobiography and life writing, and shows how the ghostwriting process results in contested layers of written and spoken texts. Rhys resists the ghostwriter's displacement of her spoken text by quoting her own written text…
Ghostwriting Transnational Histories in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise
In this article I argue that Cliff's portrait of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant participates in a genre of subaltern historiography that I term "ghostwriting." Cliff was inspired to write about Pleasant, who provided major funding and leadership in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859-and indeed the stone that marks her grave reads simply: "M. E. P. She was …
Provincializing Europe: The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
Provincializing Europe':The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River Erica L. Johnson (bio) V. S. Naipaul is somewhat infamous in postcolonial circles. As a world traveler and chronicler of global history, from the American South and Islamic fundamentalism in Iran to Indian diasporic histories on four continents, he is regarded alternately as a leading critic of the colonial condition and as an intellectual collaborator w…
Envie Et Survie”: The Paradox of Postcolonial Nostalgia in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Chemin-D’école
The first section of Patrick Chamoiseau's autobiographical novel, Chemin d'école (Paris: Gallimard, 1996), is entitled "Envie," while the second section is "Survie." As Chamoiseau recounts his youth in Martinique, he tempers his nostalgic longing for a childhood full of brilliant discovery with a deft and comic portrait of the ironies of his colonial education. The initial joy he takes in learning to write is so absolute and essential that writin…
Assessing Access: Is There Educational Equity Within Urban Schooling
Identifying sources of variation has been used extensively in educational research as a tool to identify potential drives of variances in student achievement. However, prior research predominantly relied on findings from national- or international-level data, and thus their conclusions remain very broad-based. This study contributes new insight by assessing if and where there is variation in standardized testing performance for entire populations…
Building the Neo-Archive
Dionne Brand's memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, touches on the author's childhood in Trinidad and adulthood in Canada but is equally concerned with understanding and intervening in the larger histories among which Brand situates her identity. A lush work of memories, poetry, and criticism, the work presents vignettes from the author's life alongside her meditations on writing, history, mapmaking, and most important for …
Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives, edited by Mary Wilson & Kerry L. Johnson
Memory as Colonial Capital: Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English
Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Encryption as Transmission: The Secret Gardens of Wide Sargasso Sea
Comparative counter-archival creativity: M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! and La Vaughn Belle’s Chaney
This article presents a comparative analysis of works of Caribbean art and literature that engage in a mutual project of addressing the paradox of the colonial archive. Trinidadian-Canadian writer M. NourbeSe Philip crafted her long poem Zong! from an eighteenth-century legal document about the murder of 132 enslaved Africans onboard the slave ship of the same name. Exposing the dehumanizing language of historical record from which she nonetheles…
A modernist meeting in Montparnasse: Precarity and freedom in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight and Cora Sandel’s Alberta and Freedom
When Jean Rhys was living in Paris in the years between 1918 and 1921 it is entirely likely that she at least saw the Norwegian writer Cora Sandel in the Dome café or elsewhere around Montparnasse, at Sylvia Beach's book store, or on the streets that form a character in both writers' Paris novels. Sandel, who was ten years older than Rhys, lived in Montparnasse between 1906 and 1921. Within just a few years of one another these two writers publis…
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