Shaun Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Somatics
This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post-civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time, the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More specifically, I examine how imperative time constrains black mobility and comportment. I study Misha Green's television series Lovecraft Country (2020) and James Alan McPherso…
Transnationally Rooted Practices of Candomblé in Toni Morrison'sParadise
Since the 1970s, a number of African American writers, including Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Danzy Senna, and Elizabeth Alexander, have developed literary works around Brazilian spiritual, cultural, and social formations. Advancing within a hemispheric context Houston Baker's concept of an “oceanic critical consciousness,” this article examines how narrative representations of Candomblé in Toni Morrison's Paradise (1997) prompt acts of self-recons…
Black Somatics
This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post-civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time, the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More specifically, I examine how imperative time constrains black mobility and comportment. I study Misha Green's television series Lovecraft Country (2020) and James Alan McPherso…
Transnationally Rooted Practices of Candomblé in Toni Morrison'sParadise
Since the 1970s, a number of African American writers, including Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Danzy Senna, and Elizabeth Alexander, have developed literary works around Brazilian spiritual, cultural, and social formations. Advancing within a hemispheric context Houston Baker's concept of an “oceanic critical consciousness,” this article examines how narrative representations of Candomblé in Toni Morrison's Paradise (1997) prompt acts of self-recons…
Black Somatics
This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post-civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time, the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More specifically, I examine how imperative time constrains black mobility and comportment. I study Misha Green's television series Lovecraft Country (2020) and James Alan McPherso…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African american (1 work) · Allegory (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · American literature (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)