Janet Neary
Biographic Data
| ID | 445566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Neary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Neary |
| SIGNATURE | NEARY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
Kelly Ross's comprehensive and dynamic account in Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature shows how a focus on the technologies and cultures of surveillance and sousveillance (watching from below) illuminates deep and previously unacknowledged connections between genre and race.Like
The Analytic that Flesh Makes Possible. A review of Fred Moten Stolen Life
The Analytic that Flesh Makes PossibleA review of Fred Moten Stolen Life Janet Neary (bio) Moten, Fred. Stolen Life. Duke UP, 2018. Stolen Life is the second book in Fred Moten's recent series, consent not to be a single being, published within a year by Duke University Press. Like the other books in the series, Black and Blur and The Universal Machine, Stolen Life is a set of interrelated essays in which Moten uses blackness as an analytic to pr…
Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive of ante- and postbellum literary slave narratives as well as contemporary visual art, Janet Neary brings visual and performance theory to bear on …
West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands . Culture America Series. By Emily Lutenski
In West of Harlem, Emily Lutenski argues that although “African American presence” is often “forgotten in the American historical memory,” African American literature and the American West have always been mutually constitutive cultural, material, and symbolic sites (p. 7). Opening with a productive juxtaposition of two speeches delivered within a month of one another at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago—Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Significanc…
Representational Static: Visual Slave Narratives of Contemporary Art
In 1993, visual artist Glenn Ligon debuted Narratives, a series of prints that uses the antebellum slave narrative title page as a template for ironic commentaries on contemporary American race relations. Substituting his own autobiographical details in place of those of the ex-slave narrator, Ligon creates large mock-ups of slave narrative frontispieces that link the racialized conditions of production of antebellum narratives to the racialized …
Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Revision of the Slave-Narrative Form
This article examines Elizabeth Keckly's postbellum narrative Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House . Attending to the narrative's dense visual rhetoric, the essay shows how Keckly rejects the generic proposition that white authority must legitimate black experience in the slave narrative. Overturning the racial protocols which constitute the genre's conventions of authentication, Keckly radicalizes the for…
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Representational Static: Visual Slave Narratives of Contemporary Art
In 1993, visual artist Glenn Ligon debuted Narratives, a series of prints that uses the antebellum slave narrative title page as a template for ironic commentaries on contemporary American race relations. Substituting his own autobiographical details in place of those of the ex-slave narrator, Ligon creates large mock-ups of slave narrative frontispieces that link the racialized conditions of production of antebellum narratives to the racialized …
Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Revision of the Slave-Narrative Form
This article examines Elizabeth Keckly's postbellum narrative Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House . Attending to the narrative's dense visual rhetoric, the essay shows how Keckly rejects the generic proposition that white authority must legitimate black experience in the slave narrative. Overturning the racial protocols which constitute the genre's conventions of authentication, Keckly radicalizes the for…
Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive of ante- and postbellum literary slave narratives as well as contemporary visual art, Janet Neary brings visual and performance theory to bear on …
West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands . Culture America Series. By Emily Lutenski
In West of Harlem, Emily Lutenski argues that although “African American presence” is often “forgotten in the American historical memory,” African American literature and the American West have always been mutually constitutive cultural, material, and symbolic sites (p. 7). Opening with a productive juxtaposition of two speeches delivered within a month of one another at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago—Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Significanc…
The Analytic that Flesh Makes Possible. A review of Fred Moten Stolen Life
The Analytic that Flesh Makes PossibleA review of Fred Moten Stolen Life Janet Neary (bio) Moten, Fred. Stolen Life. Duke UP, 2018. Stolen Life is the second book in Fred Moten's recent series, consent not to be a single being, published within a year by Duke University Press. Like the other books in the series, Black and Blur and The Universal Machine, Stolen Life is a set of interrelated essays in which Moten uses blackness as an analytic to pr…
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
Kelly Ross's comprehensive and dynamic account in Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature shows how a focus on the technologies and cultures of surveillance and sousveillance (watching from below) illuminates deep and previously unacknowledged connections between genre and race.Like
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