Rachel Farebrother
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Farebrother |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Farebrother |
| SIGNATURE | FAREBROTHER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6075-9428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fragmentary Forms
The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight B…
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Ren…
A ‘panorama’ of black internationalism
This essay explores the staging of resistance and antagonism in Nancy Cunard's Negro anthology, which assembles an expansive documentary archive of past and present international black life and culture to make the case for political change. It also takes the volume as a starting point for a broader investigation of black resistant aesthetics, moving beyond a historical approach to establish connections with related black diasporic cultural produc…
The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas's anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance writers by examining them in light of African American vernacular culture and early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism…
Out of Place
Journal Article “Out of Place”: Reading Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure Get access Rachel Farebrother Rachel Farebrother Swansea University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 2015, Pages 117–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv005 Published: 21 April 2015
The rhythm of segments’
Moses and nation-buildingZora Neale Hurston'sMoses, Man of the Mountainand Edward Said'sFreud and the Non-European
This article examines the significance of the representation of Moses as an Egyptian in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain and Edward Said's Freud and the Non-European. Pairing Hurston and Said continues Said's project of seeing authors 'contrapuntally', so exposing imperialism as a neglected, if submerged, context for Hurston's response to nationalism in Moses. I argue that Hurston's novel cannot be read as a straightforward critiqu…
Out of Place
Journal Article “Out of Place”: Reading Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure Get access Rachel Farebrother Rachel Farebrother Swansea University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 2015, Pages 117–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv005 Published: 21 April 2015
Moses and nation-buildingZora Neale Hurston'sMoses, Man of the Mountainand Edward Said'sFreud and the Non-European
This article examines the significance of the representation of Moses as an Egyptian in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain and Edward Said's Freud and the Non-European. Pairing Hurston and Said continues Said's project of seeing authors 'contrapuntally', so exposing imperialism as a neglected, if submerged, context for Hurston's response to nationalism in Moses. I argue that Hurston's novel cannot be read as a straightforward critiqu…
The rhythm of segments’
Out of Place
Journal Article “Out of Place”: Reading Space in Percival Everett’s Erasure Get access Rachel Farebrother Rachel Farebrother Swansea University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 2015, Pages 117–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv005 Published: 21 April 2015
The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas's anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance writers by examining them in light of African American vernacular culture and early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism…
A ‘panorama’ of black internationalism
This essay explores the staging of resistance and antagonism in Nancy Cunard's Negro anthology, which assembles an expansive documentary archive of past and present international black life and culture to make the case for political change. It also takes the volume as a starting point for a broader investigation of black resistant aesthetics, moving beyond a historical approach to establish connections with related black diasporic cultural produc…
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Ren…
The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight B…
Fragmentary Forms
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)