Susan Edmunds
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Edmunds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Edmunds |
| SIGNATURE | EDMUNDS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Houses of Contention
This essay argues that Essence magazine provides a crucial intertext for understanding Toni Morrison’s engagement in Tar Baby with the political debates that surrounded the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan in the black power era and her use of the Tar Baby story to dramatize and interpret those debates. Tar Baby responds to early scandals at the magazine spurred by white capitalist investment in the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan as well as the magazine’…
Just Like Home
This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages the history of sentimental and domestic discourse in the United States and the pivotal role that discourse played in the formation of a two-track US welfare state. Attentive…
The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”
Research Article| March 01 2003 The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane Susan Edmunds Susan Edmunds Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-141 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Out of Line
Out of Line
Introduction 1. Stealing from 'muddies body': war and wom en's aggression in Trilogy 2. I read the writing when he seized my throat: hysteria, montage and revolution in Helen in Egypt 3. That Memmon in the desert: modernism and deconolization in Hermetic Definition Notes Index
No prominent works on this page.
Out of Line
Introduction 1. Stealing from 'muddies body': war and wom en's aggression in Trilogy 2. I read the writing when he seized my throat: hysteria, montage and revolution in Helen in Egypt 3. That Memmon in the desert: modernism and deconolization in Hermetic Definition Notes Index
Out of Line
The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”
Research Article| March 01 2003 The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane Susan Edmunds Susan Edmunds Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-141 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Just Like Home
This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages the history of sentimental and domestic discourse in the United States and the pivotal role that discourse played in the formation of a two-track US welfare state. Attentive…
Houses of Contention
This essay argues that Essence magazine provides a crucial intertext for understanding Toni Morrison’s engagement in Tar Baby with the political debates that surrounded the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan in the black power era and her use of the Tar Baby story to dramatize and interpret those debates. Tar Baby responds to early scandals at the magazine spurred by white capitalist investment in the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan as well as the magazine’…
Art history (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Geometry (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)