Pekka Kilpeläinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pekka Kilpeläinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pekka |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilpeläinen |
| SIGNATURE | KILPELÄINEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When the Utopian Impulse “Fails”
Adopting a Utopian Studies perspective, this essay maps the ways in which the cultural memory of slavery underlies the conflicts and their attempted negotiations in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989). The central dilemma in the novel is the irredeemable divide between same-sex desire and patriarchal heteronormativity, the roots of which reside in the demeaning definitions of African American sexuality established during slavery, perpe…
Stephanie Li's Pan-African American Literature
At the Meetin’ Tree
This article offers a transcultural reading of the issues of cultural trauma and mobility in Daniel Black’s novel They Tell Me of a Home (2005). The protagonist, T.L., returns to his agrarian home community, Swamp Creek, in Arkansas, after a ten-year absence in which he received a PhD in black studies in New York. His homecoming foregrounds the cultural clash between the patriarchal black community and the elitist academic world that T.L. represe…
Like the sound of a crumbling wall”
This essay discusses the novel Just above My Head (1979) by the African American writer James Baldwin. Despite its complexity and multidimensionality, this novel still remains understudied when compared to many of Baldwin's earlier works. I argue that a conception of transcultural spatiality emerges in the text, particularly in a lengthy passage that depicts encounters between people of different national and racial backgrounds in the contact zon…
Birgit M. Bauridl's Betwixt, Between, or Beyond? Negotiating Transformations from the Liminal Sphere of Contemporary Black Performance Poetry
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Like the sound of a crumbling wall”
This essay discusses the novel Just above My Head (1979) by the African American writer James Baldwin. Despite its complexity and multidimensionality, this novel still remains understudied when compared to many of Baldwin's earlier works. I argue that a conception of transcultural spatiality emerges in the text, particularly in a lengthy passage that depicts encounters between people of different national and racial backgrounds in the contact zon…
Birgit M. Bauridl's Betwixt, Between, or Beyond? Negotiating Transformations from the Liminal Sphere of Contemporary Black Performance Poetry
At the Meetin’ Tree
This article offers a transcultural reading of the issues of cultural trauma and mobility in Daniel Black’s novel They Tell Me of a Home (2005). The protagonist, T.L., returns to his agrarian home community, Swamp Creek, in Arkansas, after a ten-year absence in which he received a PhD in black studies in New York. His homecoming foregrounds the cultural clash between the patriarchal black community and the elitist academic world that T.L. represe…
Stephanie Li's Pan-African American Literature
When the Utopian Impulse “Fails”
Adopting a Utopian Studies perspective, this essay maps the ways in which the cultural memory of slavery underlies the conflicts and their attempted negotiations in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989). The central dilemma in the novel is the irredeemable divide between same-sex desire and patriarchal heteronormativity, the roots of which reside in the demeaning definitions of African American sexuality established during slavery, perpe…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)