Nahum Welang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nahum Welang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nahum |
| FAMILY NAME | Welang |
| SIGNATURE | WELANG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Blues Elegy: (Re)Framing the Harlem Renaissance as a Literary Response to the 1918–19 Spanish Flu Pandemic
The Spanish Flu is widely characterized as the “forgotten” pandemic because, for most of the Twentieth century, it was seemingly absent from cultural narratives. I reexamine this characterization by (re)framing the Harlem Renaissance movement as a literary response to the Spanish Flu. Because many Harlem Renaissance artists were personally and professionally impacted by the Influenza, I employ a biocritical approach to describe their thematic exp…
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the “Spanish” Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate Covid-19 Narratives
My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological abnormality and loss of agency as a likely reaction to epidemic threats, Josep Pla’s literary non-fiction The Gray Notebook explores how the act of forgetting functions as a coping mechanism during the experience of contagion,…
Introduction: How Metaphors Remember and Culturalise Pandemics
The world responded to the proliferation of COVID-19 in 2020 with dread and despair.It had been over a century since a global pandemic of a similar scale occurred (Davis 6), and as politicians and policy makers scrambled to curb the spread of the novel contagion, scientific interventions became a prioritised, and sometimes controversial, topic of discussion (Shah) (Al-Arshani).Although the humanities were largely excluded from these pandemic disc…
Losing LeninInst Internationalism in Claude McKay’s Lost Novel
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik movement, believed that a flourishing Black proletariat consciousness was the catalyst needed for a Communist revolution in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. Thus, the Bolshevik egalitarian ideology of antiracism attracted Black Americans and anchored support for the global Communist agenda of Leninist Internationalism. After Lenin’s death in 1924, his protégé Joseph Stalin …
Borders and Betrayal in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: Rethinking Truths and Facts in the American Slave Narrative
Due to skepticism about authenticity, facts became a central trope in the American slave-narrative genre. Authors bolstered their credibility by emphasizing factual details about the barbarity of enslavement on Southern plantations. Based on interviews conducted with Cudjo Lewis, believed to be the last known surviving African slave in America, Zora Neale Hurston’s posthumously published Barracoon expands the slave narrative’s borders by unpackin…
The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyoncé's Lemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture
God permitted Christians to hold Africans as slaves even after they had converted to Christianity ... that Christian instruction could be tailored to the blacks’ supposedly inferior abilities by using special homilies and catechisms; and that their conversion in this manner made them more useful as slaves, not rebellious but diligent and loyal. (Scherer 627) This theology would later become profoundly intertwined with the institution of slavery, …
Triple Consciousness: The Reimagination of Black Female Identities in Contemporary American Culture
My article underscores the intermediate existence of black American women between race and gender by stressing the role white patriarchy and black hypermasculinity play in the marginalisation of black female voices and the prioritisation of white women’s interests within and beyond mainstream feminist spaces. In order to legitimise this intermediate existence of black women, my article develops the triple consciousness theory (TCT). Inspired by W…
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Triple Consciousness: The Reimagination of Black Female Identities in Contemporary American Culture
My article underscores the intermediate existence of black American women between race and gender by stressing the role white patriarchy and black hypermasculinity play in the marginalisation of black female voices and the prioritisation of white women’s interests within and beyond mainstream feminist spaces. In order to legitimise this intermediate existence of black women, my article develops the triple consciousness theory (TCT). Inspired by W…
The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyoncé's Lemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture
God permitted Christians to hold Africans as slaves even after they had converted to Christianity ... that Christian instruction could be tailored to the blacks’ supposedly inferior abilities by using special homilies and catechisms; and that their conversion in this manner made them more useful as slaves, not rebellious but diligent and loyal. (Scherer 627) This theology would later become profoundly intertwined with the institution of slavery, …
Borders and Betrayal in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: Rethinking Truths and Facts in the American Slave Narrative
Due to skepticism about authenticity, facts became a central trope in the American slave-narrative genre. Authors bolstered their credibility by emphasizing factual details about the barbarity of enslavement on Southern plantations. Based on interviews conducted with Cudjo Lewis, believed to be the last known surviving African slave in America, Zora Neale Hurston’s posthumously published Barracoon expands the slave narrative’s borders by unpackin…
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the “Spanish” Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate Covid-19 Narratives
My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological abnormality and loss of agency as a likely reaction to epidemic threats, Josep Pla’s literary non-fiction The Gray Notebook explores how the act of forgetting functions as a coping mechanism during the experience of contagion,…
Introduction: How Metaphors Remember and Culturalise Pandemics
The world responded to the proliferation of COVID-19 in 2020 with dread and despair.It had been over a century since a global pandemic of a similar scale occurred (Davis 6), and as politicians and policy makers scrambled to curb the spread of the novel contagion, scientific interventions became a prioritised, and sometimes controversial, topic of discussion (Shah) (Al-Arshani).Although the humanities were largely excluded from these pandemic disc…
Losing LeninInst Internationalism in Claude McKay’s Lost Novel
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik movement, believed that a flourishing Black proletariat consciousness was the catalyst needed for a Communist revolution in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. Thus, the Bolshevik egalitarian ideology of antiracism attracted Black Americans and anchored support for the global Communist agenda of Leninist Internationalism. After Lenin’s death in 1924, his protégé Joseph Stalin …
Blues Elegy: (Re)Framing the Harlem Renaissance as a Literary Response to the 1918–19 Spanish Flu Pandemic
The Spanish Flu is widely characterized as the “forgotten” pandemic because, for most of the Twentieth century, it was seemingly absent from cultural narratives. I reexamine this characterization by (re)framing the Harlem Renaissance movement as a literary response to the Spanish Flu. Because many Harlem Renaissance artists were personally and professionally impacted by the Influenza, I employ a biocritical approach to describe their thematic exp…
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