Gregory S Jay
Biographic Data
| ID | 5669666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory S Jay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory S |
| FAMILY NAME | Jay |
| SIGNATURE | JAY G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
American Literature and the Culture Wars
Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What is the appropriate purpose and scope of such pursuits? Is the notion of a traditional canon of great books out of date? Where does American literature leave off and Mexican or Caribbean or Canadian or postcolonial literature begin? Are today's campus conflicts fueled more by economics or ideology? J…
How Does It Feel to Be a Trademark?
Hurst’s best-selling novel of the 1930s portrayed the life of a New Woman business tycoon and the African American maid whose family waffle recipe became the basis for an “Aunt Jemima” kind of product and fortune. Stereotypes such as the “mammy” and “tragic mulatta” are either damaging caricatures or images to expose racism, depending on the reader’s interpretation of the text. The novel’s use of limited point of view works to satirize Bea Pullma…
Desegregating Liberalism
Lillian Smith, born in the American South, became a leading critic of white supremacy and segregation in the years from the 1920s to the 1960s. Her essays and most famous novel were radical challenges to the Jim Crow system and notable for their feminist critique of patriarchal gender norms. The chapter traces Smith’s development as an activist and writer, examines the literary devices she uses in her writing to educate readers, and considers her…
Speaking of Abjection
The genre of the white liberal race novel was revived in 2009 by Stockett’s bestseller and its high-profile Hollywood film version. Much controversy broke out over the novel’s depiction of black maids in early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, which was a center of Civil Rights activism and white backlash. Were these characters stereotypes or deconstructions of the “mammy” figure? The chapter demonstrates that the narrative sections told by the maids c…
Afterword
Recently African American journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates published an award-winning book, Between the World and Me , which can serve as a useful perspective on racial liberalism today. The book’s literary form as a letter to his son, which is drawn from the work of James Baldwin, echoes the narrative strategies of addressing the reader found in all the novels studied in previous chapters. Here again the reader is positioned as a listener, student, a…
White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett
White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly adapted them into blockbusters, reinforcing their cultural influence. These novels and films protest slavery, confront stereotypes, dramatize social and legal injustices, engage the politic…
Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination. Jennifer Glaser
Readers of Jennifer Glaser’s fascinating study of “postwar Jews’ acts of identifying across the color line” might recall Al Jolson’s famous interracial mimicry in The Jazz Singer (1927). In the film, Jolson plays Jakie Rabinowitz, a cantor’s son who aspires to be a jazz singer rather than succeeding his father in the synagogue. The film, usually cited as Hollywood’s first talking picture, was a vehicle for Jolson’s popular performances of vaudevi…
Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
Book Review| April 01 2012 Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. By Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 391 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $65 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Gregory Jay Gregory Jay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of …
Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom
Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom Get access Gregory Jay Gregory Jay University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 99–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.2.99 Published: 01 June 2005
White Out: Race and Nationalism in American Studies
Death of A Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. By David W. Noble. Minneapolis: Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 335 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). WHEN DAVID NOBLE PUBLISHED Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism in 2002, even he could not have predicted how timely the volume would be. As I sit down to write, Secretary of State General Colin Powell travels the world reiterating the…
American Literature and the Culture Wars
American Literature and the Culture Wars
Journal Article American Literature and the Culture Wars. Gregory S. Jay. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 238 pages. Get access American Literature and the Culture Wars. Gregory S. Jay. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 238 pages. George Uba George Uba California State University, Northridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 1998, Pages 227–229, https://doi.o…
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History
Catching up with Whitman: A Review Essay
The End of "American" Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice
The failure of the melting-pot, far from closing the great American democratic experiment, means that it has only just begun. Whatever American nationalism turns out to be, we see already that it will have a color richer and more exciting than our ideal has hitherto encompassed. In a world which has dreamed of internationalism, we find that we have all unawares been building up the first international nation. Randolph Bourne
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of American Literary History
American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass
Paul de Man: The Subject of Literary History
Commentaire de quelque parties de « Allegories of Reading ». Pour de Man, l'histoire litteraire est composee de series de prosopopees dont les grammaires ou les enonciations portent toujours les traces de leur seduction rhetorique. L'histoire serait toujours rhetorique; litteraire ou politique, elle est impensable sans le jeu de seduction entre l'ecrivain et le lecteur a l'interieur des illusions du langage figuratif et de ses correspondances soc…
Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
Values and Deconstructions: Derrida, Saussure, Marx
For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.... For why has the advent of nihilism become necessary? Because the we have had hitherto thus draw their final consequence; because nihilism represents the ultimate logical …
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys
After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History
America the Scrivener: Economy and Literary History
T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History
Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom
Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom Get access Gregory Jay Gregory Jay University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 99–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.2.99 Published: 01 June 2005
White Out: Race and Nationalism in American Studies
Death of A Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. By David W. Noble. Minneapolis: Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 335 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). WHEN DAVID NOBLE PUBLISHED Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism in 2002, even he could not have predicted how timely the volume would be. As I sit down to write, Secretary of State General Colin Powell travels the world reiterating the…
Values and Deconstructions: Derrida, Saussure, Marx
For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.... For why has the advent of nihilism become necessary? Because the we have had hitherto thus draw their final consequence; because nihilism represents the ultimate logical …
American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass
America the Scrivener: Economy and Literary History
T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History
Milton and the Postmodern
T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys
After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
Values and Deconstructions: Derrida, Saussure, Marx
For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.... For why has the advent of nihilism become necessary? Because the we have had hitherto thus draw their final consequence; because nihilism represents the ultimate logical …
Paul de Man: The Subject of Literary History
Commentaire de quelque parties de « Allegories of Reading ». Pour de Man, l'histoire litteraire est composee de series de prosopopees dont les grammaires ou les enonciations portent toujours les traces de leur seduction rhetorique. L'histoire serait toujours rhetorique; litteraire ou politique, elle est impensable sans le jeu de seduction entre l'ecrivain et le lecteur a l'interieur des illusions du langage figuratif et de ses correspondances soc…
American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass
The End of "American" Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice
The failure of the melting-pot, far from closing the great American democratic experiment, means that it has only just begun. Whatever American nationalism turns out to be, we see already that it will have a color richer and more exciting than our ideal has hitherto encompassed. In a world which has dreamed of internationalism, we find that we have all unawares been building up the first international nation. Randolph Bourne
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of American Literary History
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History
Catching up with Whitman: A Review Essay
American Literature and the Culture Wars
American Literature and the Culture Wars
Journal Article American Literature and the Culture Wars. Gregory S. Jay. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 238 pages. Get access American Literature and the Culture Wars. Gregory S. Jay. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 238 pages. George Uba George Uba California State University, Northridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 1998, Pages 227–229, https://doi.o…
White Out: Race and Nationalism in American Studies
Death of A Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. By David W. Noble. Minneapolis: Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 335 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). WHEN DAVID NOBLE PUBLISHED Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism in 2002, even he could not have predicted how timely the volume would be. As I sit down to write, Secretary of State General Colin Powell travels the world reiterating the…
Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom
Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom Get access Gregory Jay Gregory Jay University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 99–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.2.99 Published: 01 June 2005
Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
Book Review| April 01 2012 Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. By Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 391 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $65 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Gregory Jay Gregory Jay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of …
How Does It Feel to Be a Trademark?
Hurst’s best-selling novel of the 1930s portrayed the life of a New Woman business tycoon and the African American maid whose family waffle recipe became the basis for an “Aunt Jemima” kind of product and fortune. Stereotypes such as the “mammy” and “tragic mulatta” are either damaging caricatures or images to expose racism, depending on the reader’s interpretation of the text. The novel’s use of limited point of view works to satirize Bea Pullma…
Desegregating Liberalism
Lillian Smith, born in the American South, became a leading critic of white supremacy and segregation in the years from the 1920s to the 1960s. Her essays and most famous novel were radical challenges to the Jim Crow system and notable for their feminist critique of patriarchal gender norms. The chapter traces Smith’s development as an activist and writer, examines the literary devices she uses in her writing to educate readers, and considers her…
Speaking of Abjection
The genre of the white liberal race novel was revived in 2009 by Stockett’s bestseller and its high-profile Hollywood film version. Much controversy broke out over the novel’s depiction of black maids in early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, which was a center of Civil Rights activism and white backlash. Were these characters stereotypes or deconstructions of the “mammy” figure? The chapter demonstrates that the narrative sections told by the maids c…
Afterword
Recently African American journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates published an award-winning book, Between the World and Me , which can serve as a useful perspective on racial liberalism today. The book’s literary form as a letter to his son, which is drawn from the work of James Baldwin, echoes the narrative strategies of addressing the reader found in all the novels studied in previous chapters. Here again the reader is positioned as a listener, student, a…
White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett
White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly adapted them into blockbusters, reinforcing their cultural influence. These novels and films protest slavery, confront stereotypes, dramatize social and legal injustices, engage the politic…
Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination. Jennifer Glaser
Readers of Jennifer Glaser’s fascinating study of “postwar Jews’ acts of identifying across the color line” might recall Al Jolson’s famous interracial mimicry in The Jazz Singer (1927). In the film, Jolson plays Jakie Rabinowitz, a cantor’s son who aspires to be a jazz singer rather than succeeding his father in the synagogue. The film, usually cited as Hollywood’s first talking picture, was a vehicle for Jolson’s popular performances of vaudevi…
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