Kedon Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kedon Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kedon |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0599-8389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine's Nature's Wild
This essay on Andil Gosine's Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) reflects on the author's application of animal studies as a productive analytic of the enduring anxieties around respectable citizenship in the Caribbean as expressed by contemporary regulations governing sex, marriage, and public dress. The pairing of antisodomy laws and bestiality codes during the early colonial era, Gosine contends, underwrites contemporary …
Making Love (and Maps), Not War
The 1918 anti-Chinese riots, which saw scores of Chinese-owned stores destroyed by largely Afro-descended peasant community members, are popularly remembered as one of the worst acts of interracial violence in Jamaica's postemancipation history. However, by examining the coverage of the riots by the Gleaner, Jamaica's newspaper of record, the author embarks on a mapping project to help show the network of nonconforming and anticolonial collaborat…
Unsettled intimacies: Revisiting Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country through Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Scholars have highlighted Nella Larsen’s textual interventions into aspects of Edith Wharton’s major works. The interventions, they claim, not only unmask Wharton’s pointed operations of erasure against people of color but, in some cases, showcase her racism. None of these works, however, devote critical analysis to the interventions staged on Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (1913), the novel that, I argue, is her most definitive statement on…
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Unsettled intimacies: Revisiting Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country through Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Scholars have highlighted Nella Larsen’s textual interventions into aspects of Edith Wharton’s major works. The interventions, they claim, not only unmask Wharton’s pointed operations of erasure against people of color but, in some cases, showcase her racism. None of these works, however, devote critical analysis to the interventions staged on Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (1913), the novel that, I argue, is her most definitive statement on…
Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine's Nature's Wild
This essay on Andil Gosine's Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) reflects on the author's application of animal studies as a productive analytic of the enduring anxieties around respectable citizenship in the Caribbean as expressed by contemporary regulations governing sex, marriage, and public dress. The pairing of antisodomy laws and bestiality codes during the early colonial era, Gosine contends, underwrites contemporary …
Making Love (and Maps), Not War
The 1918 anti-Chinese riots, which saw scores of Chinese-owned stores destroyed by largely Afro-descended peasant community members, are popularly remembered as one of the worst acts of interracial violence in Jamaica's postemancipation history. However, by examining the coverage of the riots by the Gleaner, Jamaica's newspaper of record, the author embarks on a mapping project to help show the network of nonconforming and anticolonial collaborat…
Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)