Brendon K Vayo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendon K Vayo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendon K |
| FAMILY NAME | Vayo |
| SIGNATURE | VAYO B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Houston Community College System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Made the absence shout’
In 1856, Margaret Garner murdered one child, and attempted to murder three others, rather than return them to slavery. Despite the impact traumas like Garner’s had on abolition, history largely forgets or ignores these gruesome details. In their place come racialist markers that obscure Garner’s likeness. Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s The Modern Medea , for example, depicts Garner with a head wrap and wild eyes. Visual cues such as these perpetuate …
Iconoclasms of Emmett Till and his killers in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle
In this essay, I argue that the apparent historical inaccuracies contained within Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle (Nordan, Lewis. 2003 [1993]. Wolf Whistle . Chapel Hill: Algonquin) represent a systematic repeal of the controversial history surrounding the murder of Emmett Till in 1955. Nordan reconstitutes the principle characters to function as iconoclasms of the historical record. As iconoclasms, these representations undermine our culture’s accep…
Made the absence shout’
In 1856, Margaret Garner murdered one child, and attempted to murder three others, rather than return them to slavery. Despite the impact traumas like Garner’s had on abolition, history largely forgets or ignores these gruesome details. In their place come racialist markers that obscure Garner’s likeness. Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s The Modern Medea , for example, depicts Garner with a head wrap and wild eyes. Visual cues such as these perpetuate …
Iconoclasms of Emmett Till and his killers in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle
In this essay, I argue that the apparent historical inaccuracies contained within Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle (Nordan, Lewis. 2003 [1993]. Wolf Whistle . Chapel Hill: Algonquin) represent a systematic repeal of the controversial history surrounding the murder of Emmett Till in 1955. Nordan reconstitutes the principle characters to function as iconoclasms of the historical record. As iconoclasms, these representations undermine our culture’s accep…
Made the absence shout’
In 1856, Margaret Garner murdered one child, and attempted to murder three others, rather than return them to slavery. Despite the impact traumas like Garner’s had on abolition, history largely forgets or ignores these gruesome details. In their place come racialist markers that obscure Garner’s likeness. Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s The Modern Medea , for example, depicts Garner with a head wrap and wild eyes. Visual cues such as these perpetuate …
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Chapel (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)