Jay Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCIA J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism
The posthumous 2021 publication of the full unexpurgated version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, paired with his essay “Memories of My Grandmother,” also published for the first time, opens a new phase of inquiry into his work. The essay, in particular, reveals how immersed Wright became in discussions of surrealism and how he worked to give it specific inflections as he moved toward new projects in the early to mid-1940s. Deve…
The New Negro and the National-Popular: Randolph Bourne and Alain Locke
This essay argues that “New Negro” and “Young American” writings from the early twentieth century reward rereading in concert with Antonio Gramsci’s concept of a “national-popular” and as instances of theoretical production in themselves. Focusing on the work of Randolph Bourne (1886–1918) and Alain Locke (1889–1954), the essay returns to “New Negro” and “Young American” writings not only to identify the interplay among them but also to recast ke…
An Attitude That Could Act Upon Modernity”: Versions of Jean Toomer
Research Article| April 01 2014 “An Attitude That Could Act Upon Modernity”: Versions of Jean Toomer Jay Garcia Jay Garcia Jay Garcia teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in the Twentieth-Century U.S. (2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 23–48. https://doi.org/10.540…
The Explanatory Critic
Harry Levin figured centrally in the postwar “restart” of Comparative Literature, to borrow Gerald Gillespie's apt term for the field's mid-twentieth-century reinvention and expansion.1 Charged with reorganizing Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature after World War II, Levin went on to advise students for over four decades. Only the third president of the American Comparative Literature Association, Levin became a presence within the fie…
Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith
The white southern writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966) explored potent codes of class, race, and gender in the American South and the forms of violence and repression they nurtured. Smith's dissident views on American racial custom and her contestation of the segregation and oppression of African Americans contributed to growing calls for civic and legal transformations of the racist social order during the 1940s, when she gained national recognitio…
Home of the Brave, Frantz Fanon and cultural pluralism
This article examines Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949, USA), a Hollywood social problem drama about anti-black racism, and the brief but vivid response to the film presented in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Fanon enables a rethinking of some of the film's most central assumptions and the discourses upon which the story relies. At the same time, Fanon's response conveys information about his own biography and his perspective…
El arte naturalista y el arte geometrico
Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism
The posthumous 2021 publication of the full unexpurgated version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, paired with his essay “Memories of My Grandmother,” also published for the first time, opens a new phase of inquiry into his work. The essay, in particular, reveals how immersed Wright became in discussions of surrealism and how he worked to give it specific inflections as he moved toward new projects in the early to mid-1940s. Deve…
Home of the Brave, Frantz Fanon and cultural pluralism
This article examines Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949, USA), a Hollywood social problem drama about anti-black racism, and the brief but vivid response to the film presented in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Fanon enables a rethinking of some of the film's most central assumptions and the discourses upon which the story relies. At the same time, Fanon's response conveys information about his own biography and his perspective…
El arte naturalista y el arte geometrico
Home of the Brave, Frantz Fanon and cultural pluralism
This article examines Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949, USA), a Hollywood social problem drama about anti-black racism, and the brief but vivid response to the film presented in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Fanon enables a rethinking of some of the film's most central assumptions and the discourses upon which the story relies. At the same time, Fanon's response conveys information about his own biography and his perspective…
Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith
The white southern writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966) explored potent codes of class, race, and gender in the American South and the forms of violence and repression they nurtured. Smith's dissident views on American racial custom and her contestation of the segregation and oppression of African Americans contributed to growing calls for civic and legal transformations of the racist social order during the 1940s, when she gained national recognitio…
An Attitude That Could Act Upon Modernity”: Versions of Jean Toomer
Research Article| April 01 2014 “An Attitude That Could Act Upon Modernity”: Versions of Jean Toomer Jay Garcia Jay Garcia Jay Garcia teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in the Twentieth-Century U.S. (2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 23–48. https://doi.org/10.540…
The Explanatory Critic
Harry Levin figured centrally in the postwar “restart” of Comparative Literature, to borrow Gerald Gillespie's apt term for the field's mid-twentieth-century reinvention and expansion.1 Charged with reorganizing Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature after World War II, Levin went on to advise students for over four decades. Only the third president of the American Comparative Literature Association, Levin became a presence within the fie…
The New Negro and the National-Popular: Randolph Bourne and Alain Locke
This essay argues that “New Negro” and “Young American” writings from the early twentieth century reward rereading in concert with Antonio Gramsci’s concept of a “national-popular” and as instances of theoretical production in themselves. Focusing on the work of Randolph Bourne (1886–1918) and Alain Locke (1889–1954), the essay returns to “New Negro” and “Young American” writings not only to identify the interplay among them but also to recast ke…
Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism
The posthumous 2021 publication of the full unexpurgated version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, paired with his essay “Memories of My Grandmother,” also published for the first time, opens a new phase of inquiry into his work. The essay, in particular, reveals how immersed Wright became in discussions of surrealism and how he worked to give it specific inflections as he moved toward new projects in the early to mid-1940s. Deve…
Art (7 works) · Art history (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)