Marietta Kosma
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marietta Kosma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marietta |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosma |
| SIGNATURE | KOSMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | ISNI: 0000000419368948 University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4698-7715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disaffected
In Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of U nfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling, arguing for "the humanity of minoritized subjects by enlisting the literature [of nineteenth-century America] to affirm that they feel too" (3).Yao makes a key intervention in our understanding of affect and politics in American literature by engaging …
Polina Mackay, Beat Feminisms
The contribution of women writers to beat literature has been central in revisionist studies since the late twentieth century. Polina Mackay’s Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism extends a long-standing tradition of beat feminist literature, which includes the following works, among others: Women of the Beat Generation (1996), A Different Beat (1997), Girls Who Wore Black (2002), Breaking the Rule of Cool (2004), Out of the S…
Marlon Ross, Sissy Insurgencies
In Sissy Insurgencies, Marlon B. Ross examines the figure of the sissy in order to reevaluate how Americans have articulated and negotiated boyhood and manhood from the 1880s to the present. Ross explores how we define the policing of masculinity within the spectrum of both blackness and queerness while being rooted in insecurity. Instead of equating sissiness with homosexuality, Ross depicts how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range o…
Feels Right
Review of: Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago , Kemi Adeyemi (2022) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 192 pp., ISBN 978-1-47801-869-8, p/bk, $24.95
Dorothy Roberts, Torn Apart
In Torn Apart Roberts provides a legal analysis of the US child welfare system that is grounded in a historical, sociological, political, and economic analysis. Torn Apart could be viewed as a continuation of Robert’s book Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, in which the regulation of black women’s child bearing is analyzed in detail. Roberts helps us understand how the welfare system operates in terms of feder…
Black Trans Feminism, Marquis Bey (2021)
Review of: Black Trans Feminism , Marquis Bey (2021) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 304 pp., ISBN 978-1-47801-781-3, h/bk, $104.95
Colonial Archives in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
This article explores narratives of sexual violence, commodification, and objectification of the Black female body in the patriarchal context through the intersectionality of the vectors of race, class, and gender. The notion of performativity is central to this context. This article addresses the way that, in Austin Clarke’s novel The Polished Hoe, Mary-Mathilda assumes radical agency by resisting sexual victimization and reaches a complex under…
Colonial Archives in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
This article explores narratives of sexual violence, commodification, and objectification of the Black female body in the patriarchal context through the intersectionality of the vectors of race, class, and gender. The notion of performativity is central to this context. This article addresses the way that, in Austin Clarke’s novel The Polished Hoe, Mary-Mathilda assumes radical agency by resisting sexual victimization and reaches a complex under…
Dorothy Roberts, Torn Apart
In Torn Apart Roberts provides a legal analysis of the US child welfare system that is grounded in a historical, sociological, political, and economic analysis. Torn Apart could be viewed as a continuation of Robert’s book Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, in which the regulation of black women’s child bearing is analyzed in detail. Roberts helps us understand how the welfare system operates in terms of feder…
Black Trans Feminism, Marquis Bey (2021)
Review of: Black Trans Feminism , Marquis Bey (2021) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 304 pp., ISBN 978-1-47801-781-3, h/bk, $104.95
Colonial Archives in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
This article explores narratives of sexual violence, commodification, and objectification of the Black female body in the patriarchal context through the intersectionality of the vectors of race, class, and gender. The notion of performativity is central to this context. This article addresses the way that, in Austin Clarke’s novel The Polished Hoe, Mary-Mathilda assumes radical agency by resisting sexual victimization and reaches a complex under…
Disaffected
In Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of U nfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling, arguing for "the humanity of minoritized subjects by enlisting the literature [of nineteenth-century America] to affirm that they feel too" (3).Yao makes a key intervention in our understanding of affect and politics in American literature by engaging …
Polina Mackay, Beat Feminisms
The contribution of women writers to beat literature has been central in revisionist studies since the late twentieth century. Polina Mackay’s Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism extends a long-standing tradition of beat feminist literature, which includes the following works, among others: Women of the Beat Generation (1996), A Different Beat (1997), Girls Who Wore Black (2002), Breaking the Rule of Cool (2004), Out of the S…
Marlon Ross, Sissy Insurgencies
In Sissy Insurgencies, Marlon B. Ross examines the figure of the sissy in order to reevaluate how Americans have articulated and negotiated boyhood and manhood from the 1880s to the present. Ross explores how we define the policing of masculinity within the spectrum of both blackness and queerness while being rooted in insecurity. Instead of equating sissiness with homosexuality, Ross depicts how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range o…
Feels Right
Review of: Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago , Kemi Adeyemi (2022) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 192 pp., ISBN 978-1-47801-869-8, p/bk, $24.95
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)