Zachary Manditch‐Prottas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5802045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Manditch‐Prottas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Manditch‐Prottas |
| SIGNATURE | PROTTAS Z M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Never Die Alone
Depending on who you ask, Donald Goines is a pioneer of Black popular fiction or a purveyor of shoddy pulp. This duality is illustrative of an impasse between American intelligentsia and Goines’s folk readership. Goines wrote sixteen novels between 1971-74 that have remained in print for sixty years with sales in the millions. Yet Goines remains an understudied American author and unacknowledged in the transnational reach of his writing. This ess…
Revolution or Death
When Militancy Was in Vogue
You Just Never Can Know What's Up the Road
"You Just Never Can Know What's Up the Road":An Interview with Cecil Brown Zachary Manditch-Prottas (bio) and Cecil Brown In 1969, Cecil Brown's provocatively titled debut novel The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger made quite a splash on the literary scene. From legend of hardboiled letters Chester Himes, to liberal outlet The New Leader, reviewers noted that Brown's prose was as knowing as his subject matter was titillating; the mixture of t…
Street Players
Depending upon the construction of one’s canon, Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines are either iconic or insignificant. Indeed, these forebears of so-called Street Lit sit squarely at the center of a cr
Hustlin’ from the Page to the Screen
Meeting at the Watchtower
Meeting at the Watchtower:Eldridge Cleaver, James Baldwin's No Name in the Street, and Racializing Homophobic Vernacular Zachary Manditch-Prottas (bio) His Goat, Our Lamb: Soul on Ice and James Baldwin as Instructive Victim In his prison-time memoir Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver, Black Power ideologue provocateur, attacked the racial authenticity and manhood of perhaps the most acclaimed and accomplished African American author of the decade, Jam…
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by Julie Buckner Armstrong
Reviewed by: The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by Julie Buckner Armstrong Zachary Manditch-Prottas (bio) Armstrong, Julie Buckner. The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 2015. Long established as eminent compilations of top tier scholarship, “The Cambridge Companion” series promises range and coherence that provides a state of the field more so than an intervention in the fie…
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The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by Julie Buckner Armstrong
Reviewed by: The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by Julie Buckner Armstrong Zachary Manditch-Prottas (bio) Armstrong, Julie Buckner. The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 2015. Long established as eminent compilations of top tier scholarship, “The Cambridge Companion” series promises range and coherence that provides a state of the field more so than an intervention in the fie…
Street Players
Depending upon the construction of one’s canon, Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines are either iconic or insignificant. Indeed, these forebears of so-called Street Lit sit squarely at the center of a cr
Hustlin’ from the Page to the Screen
Meeting at the Watchtower
Meeting at the Watchtower:Eldridge Cleaver, James Baldwin's No Name in the Street, and Racializing Homophobic Vernacular Zachary Manditch-Prottas (bio) His Goat, Our Lamb: Soul on Ice and James Baldwin as Instructive Victim In his prison-time memoir Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver, Black Power ideologue provocateur, attacked the racial authenticity and manhood of perhaps the most acclaimed and accomplished African American author of the decade, Jam…
Revolution or Death
When Militancy Was in Vogue
You Just Never Can Know What's Up the Road
"You Just Never Can Know What's Up the Road":An Interview with Cecil Brown Zachary Manditch-Prottas (bio) and Cecil Brown In 1969, Cecil Brown's provocatively titled debut novel The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger made quite a splash on the literary scene. From legend of hardboiled letters Chester Himes, to liberal outlet The New Leader, reviewers noted that Brown's prose was as knowing as his subject matter was titillating; the mixture of t…
Never Die Alone
Depending on who you ask, Donald Goines is a pioneer of Black popular fiction or a purveyor of shoddy pulp. This duality is illustrative of an impasse between American intelligentsia and Goines’s folk readership. Goines wrote sixteen novels between 1971-74 that have remained in print for sixty years with sales in the millions. Yet Goines remains an understudied American author and unacknowledged in the transnational reach of his writing. This ess…
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