Allison S Curseen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5702865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison S Curseen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison S |
| FAMILY NAME | Curseen |
| SIGNATURE | CURSEEN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Something about Rock Glen
Black Girlish Departure and the “Semiotics of Theater” in Harriet Jacobs's Narrative; or, Lulu & Ellen
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was edited and introduced to its antebellum reading public in 1861 by the white abolitionist Lydia Marie Child. Nearly a century and a half later, another Lydia once again brings Jacobs's story to the public attention as Harriet Jacobs , a stage play by critically acclaimed African American playwright Lydia R. Diamond. Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre commissioned and debuted the play in 2008 as…
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth CenturyAmerican Tomboys, 1850–1915
Focusing on the figure of the girl, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century and Renée M. Sentilles’s American Tomboys, 1850–1915 critically reexamine the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and female citizen formation. Undergirding Wright’s and Sentilles’s studies of nineteenth-century girlhood is a shared emphasis on the kinds of stories that can emerge between the literary and nonliterary, between historical record…
Everything Is Alive”
Focusing on the minor details of suffering cats, I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way in which American novels of individual development destabilize around the movement of minor bodies and minor characters. This destabilization allows not only an interrogation of the limits of US citizenship but also an exploration of how narratives may register something in excess of the citizen and the subject. Distinguish…
Racial Innocence
Book Review| March 01 2013 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Bernstein, Robin. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. 318 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00.Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature. By Singley, Carol J.. N…
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Racial Innocence
Book Review| March 01 2013 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Bernstein, Robin. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. 318 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00.Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature. By Singley, Carol J.. N…
Everything Is Alive”
Focusing on the minor details of suffering cats, I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way in which American novels of individual development destabilize around the movement of minor bodies and minor characters. This destabilization allows not only an interrogation of the limits of US citizenship but also an exploration of how narratives may register something in excess of the citizen and the subject. Distinguish…
Black Girlish Departure and the “Semiotics of Theater” in Harriet Jacobs's Narrative; or, Lulu & Ellen
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was edited and introduced to its antebellum reading public in 1861 by the white abolitionist Lydia Marie Child. Nearly a century and a half later, another Lydia once again brings Jacobs's story to the public attention as Harriet Jacobs , a stage play by critically acclaimed African American playwright Lydia R. Diamond. Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre commissioned and debuted the play in 2008 as…
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth CenturyAmerican Tomboys, 1850–1915
Focusing on the figure of the girl, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century and Renée M. Sentilles’s American Tomboys, 1850–1915 critically reexamine the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and female citizen formation. Undergirding Wright’s and Sentilles’s studies of nineteenth-century girlhood is a shared emphasis on the kinds of stories that can emerge between the literary and nonliterary, between historical record…
Something about Rock Glen
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Literature and Culture (2 works)