Ursula Mctaggart
Biographic Data
| ID | 653193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Mctaggart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Mctaggart |
| SIGNATURE | MCTAGGART U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilmington College, OH, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Historical Fiction about John Brown and Male Identity in Radical Movements
This essay analyzes two works of historical fiction about abolitionist John Brown and his followers: James McBride's The Good Lord Bird (2013) and Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter (1998). Both texts decenter John Brown from the raid on Harpers Ferry and examine how his followers, historical and imagined, made the choice to participate in violent resistance. Both authors use the metaphor of castration anxiety to depict their protagonists' relationshi…
The Empty Noose
Although graphic lynching photographs have become a popular topic of academic study, today’s lynching iconography does not rely on spectacle. This essay explores how the shift to figurative representations of lynching affected anti-racist strategies. In particular, it examines how one organization and two authors of the Black Power/Black Arts Movement era—the Black Panther Party, playwright Ed Bullins, and novelist John Edgar Wideman—responded to…
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The Empty Noose
Although graphic lynching photographs have become a popular topic of academic study, today’s lynching iconography does not rely on spectacle. This essay explores how the shift to figurative representations of lynching affected anti-racist strategies. In particular, it examines how one organization and two authors of the Black Power/Black Arts Movement era—the Black Panther Party, playwright Ed Bullins, and novelist John Edgar Wideman—responded to…
Historical Fiction about John Brown and Male Identity in Radical Movements
This essay analyzes two works of historical fiction about abolitionist John Brown and his followers: James McBride's The Good Lord Bird (2013) and Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter (1998). Both texts decenter John Brown from the raid on Harpers Ferry and examine how his followers, historical and imagined, made the choice to participate in violent resistance. Both authors use the metaphor of castration anxiety to depict their protagonists' relationshi…
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Black Power (1 work)