Molly Mccracken
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molly Mccracken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Molly |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccracken |
| SIGNATURE | MCCRACKEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Our American Optimism”
This paper explores Claudia Rankine’s representation of the feelings of racialisation in her 2004 poetry collection Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Contextualising this work within wider debates in Afropessimist philosophy, it considers how the poet’s portrayal of emotional pain, depression, and numbness exemplify a form of ‘social death’ instigated by the ubiquitous violence of antiblackness. Through close readings of select sequences…
Rebellious Enthusiasm, Ambivalent Forms
This article considers Tyehimba Jess’s representation of the lives of several historical African American musicians from the post-emancipation period in his 2016 collection Olio. Reading Olio in the context of African American musical traditions, it considers how Jess’s syncopated sonnet forms appropriate and contest historical instances of white supremacy to undermine the dehumanizing logics of plantocracy. At the same time, it explores how the …
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“Our American Optimism”
This paper explores Claudia Rankine’s representation of the feelings of racialisation in her 2004 poetry collection Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Contextualising this work within wider debates in Afropessimist philosophy, it considers how the poet’s portrayal of emotional pain, depression, and numbness exemplify a form of ‘social death’ instigated by the ubiquitous violence of antiblackness. Through close readings of select sequences…
Rebellious Enthusiasm, Ambivalent Forms
This article considers Tyehimba Jess’s representation of the lives of several historical African American musicians from the post-emancipation period in his 2016 collection Olio. Reading Olio in the context of African American musical traditions, it considers how Jess’s syncopated sonnet forms appropriate and contest historical instances of white supremacy to undermine the dehumanizing logics of plantocracy. At the same time, it explores how the …
Art (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · CONTEST (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Degree Rankine (1 work) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 work) · Emancipation (1 work) · Enthusiasm (1 work) · Ethos (1 work)