Gregory Jerome Hampton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4865016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Jerome Hampton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Hampton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMPTON G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anatomy of a Robot
Reviewed by: Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People by Despina Kakoudaki Gregory Hampton (bio) Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People. By Despina Kakoudaki. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014. Pp. $27.95. Anatomy of a Robot by Despina Kakoudaki is an exciting meditation on the construction and employment of artificial bodies. Kakoudaki adroitly …
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society. This text interro…
Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler
Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler…
There Ain't No Accounting for What Folks See in Their Own Mirrors”
This article describes a study of both textual and reader response analyses of The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake. Because gender and race constitute central themes in the narrative, Black feminist thought and feminism undergirded the textual critique. Critics' reviews, scholarly articles, and published author interviews also supported the textual analysis. Data were triangulated with excerpts from female student responses to the text and, specifica…
In Memoriam
Click for larger view Figure 1 Octavia E. Butler [End Page 245] I feel that what people bring to my work is at least as important to them as what I put into it. Bloodchild and Other Stories Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. Butler was raised primarily by her mother, as her father died when she was very young. To escape the boredom of poverty, Butler began writing at the age of 10. Despite her dyslexia, by …
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In Memoriam
Click for larger view Figure 1 Octavia E. Butler [End Page 245] I feel that what people bring to my work is at least as important to them as what I put into it. Bloodchild and Other Stories Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. Butler was raised primarily by her mother, as her father died when she was very young. To escape the boredom of poverty, Butler began writing at the age of 10. Despite her dyslexia, by …
There Ain't No Accounting for What Folks See in Their Own Mirrors”
This article describes a study of both textual and reader response analyses of The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake. Because gender and race constitute central themes in the narrative, Black feminist thought and feminism undergirded the textual critique. Critics' reviews, scholarly articles, and published author interviews also supported the textual analysis. Data were triangulated with excerpts from female student responses to the text and, specifica…
Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler
Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler…
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continues to be utilized in contemporary society. This text interro…
Anatomy of a Robot
Reviewed by: Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People by Despina Kakoudaki Gregory Hampton (bio) Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People. By Despina Kakoudaki. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014. Pp. $27.95. Anatomy of a Robot by Despina Kakoudaki is an exciting meditation on the construction and employment of artificial bodies. Kakoudaki adroitly …
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