Stephen Knadler
Biographic Data
| ID | 680831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Knadler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Knadler |
| SIGNATURE | KNADLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Spelman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1146-907X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability
“Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Re-Constructing the Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy” fills a gap in nineteenth-century Black disability histories that have overlooked questions of chronic disabilities. In Iola Leroy, Harper writes from the perspective of the chronically disabled and offers fugitive figurations that exceed, resist, and stand apart from nineteenth-century representations of white true women’s i…
Black Madness
Counterlife
Reviewed by: Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg Stephen Knadler Christopher Freeburg. Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death. Durham: Duke UP, 2021. 152 pp. $23.95. Even amid unspeakable grief, there has always been Black joy. Black people just existing, loving, laughing, loafing, not doing anything but pursuing their own personal meaning or spiritual bliss. The persistence of this exces…
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations
“Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations” focuses on the neglected cognitive biopolitics in post-Reconstruction debates over African American progress and full democratic citizenship, in order to trace an unmarked African American neurodiverse disability history, or the antiableist imagining of neurological, cognitive, and psychological variations that existed before and persisted alongside the emergence of modern evolutionary- and hereditary-based diagnos…
Opioid Storytelling
“Opioid Storytelling: Rehabilitating a White Disability Nationalism” argues that stories of the opioid crisis disseminate an emerging white disability nationalism that functions to morph and reconsolidate the “machinery of whiteness” around an affectively charged disability politics. Through a close reading of HBO's 2017 documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You , directed by Perri Peltz, as well as Beth Macy's New York Times best book of 2018,…
None Like Us
Reviewed by: None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life by Stephen Best Stephen Knadler Stephen Best. None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life. Durham: Duke UP, 2018. 208 pp. $24.95. How and why do we read the archive? What does our engagement with a black past look like and to what extent is it driven by agendas—ethical, [End Page 158] political, and professional—that have not always been fully acknowledged and that need to be …
Playing in the White
The question of how we do critical race studies today in a post–identity politics academy drives a number of recent innovative and provocative books by Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Stephanie Li, and Cassander L. Smith. What works get put into an African American or Jewish canon? What methods do we use to analyze them? What work can literature and its empathetic identifications do as critical interventions? Although these monographs are built a…
Narrating Slow Violence
“Narrating Slow Violence: Post-Reconstruction Necropolitics and Speculating beyond Liberal Anti-Race Fiction” explores through the works of W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Chesnutt a post-Reconstruction racial order’s more dispersed, yet more virulent attritional biopolitics of “slow violence” and argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century African American writers turned to a speculative realism as a narrative strategy to give shape to the differential…
Charisma and the Fictions of Black LeadershipExodus Politics
The election of Barack Obama as the first African American president has crowded a critical field within black studies seeking to decrypt the contradictions of our “Obama era”: How do we reconcile claims of colorblind equal opportunity and a tokenized minority difference with persistent material inequalities, racism, and the strategic exclusions of a criminalized poor? But if African Americanists have sought to account for Obama’s “failure” to fu…
Unsanitized Domestic Allegories
“Unsanitized Domestic Allegories” begins the work of recovering the complex history linking Progressive-Era biomedicalization, gender expectations, and ideologies of racial uplift within African American culture. Through a close reading of early-twentieth-century African American health care activists, including C. V. Roman, founding member of the National Medical Association (1895) and the first editor of the Journal of the National Medical Asso…
Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire where many African Americans lived, worked and so…
De-regulating the History of African American Body Politics
King's Dream; American Prophecy
Book Review| December 01 2009 King's Dream; American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 869–871. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Knadler; King's Dream; American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Polit…
Sensationalizing Patriotism
Research Article| December 01 2007 Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 673–699. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Knadler; Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutt…
Liberation Historiography
Mercy, Mercy Me
Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance
Stephen Knadler, Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance: Remaking the Record in Nella Larsen's "Passing" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz", African American Review, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 99-118
Traumatized Racial Performativity
At the end of Frank Webb's 1857 novel, The Garies and Their Friends, the traditional sentimental ending of the marriage plot is interrupted by the repetition of a trauma that will not heal. 1 During the wedding ceremony of Charlie Ellis and Emily Garie, Webb pauses to witness the incomprehensible horror of Mr. Ellis's recurring, yet ultimately unspeakable pain. Several years earlier, while trying to warn the Garies of the antiblack mob's assault …
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature
Book Review| March 01 2003 Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence, 1680-1865 By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp.$34.95.By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xv,374 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this…
Sweetback Style
In a letter to William Jourdan Rapp, his collaborator on the plays "Harlem" and "Jeremiah the Magnificent," Wallace Thurman asserted that he wanted to formulate a "new philosophy for a new generation of younger Negroes." 1 To many of his contemporaries, Thurman not only failed to realize such a grandiose ambition, he disseminated instead what they labeled "effeminate Tommyrot" (qtd. in Thurman, "Negro Artists" 37). In such a "homophobic" denuncia…
Literatures of Memory
Book Review| June 01 2002 Literatures of Memory: History, Time, and Space in Postwar Writing By Peter Middleton and Tim Woods. Manchester, Eng.: Manchester Univ. Press. 2000. viii, 323 pp. Cloth; $69.95; paper, $29.95. Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 426–428. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Hawthorne's Genealogy of Madness
THE REFORMER, A RECURRENT CHARACTER IN HAWTHORNE'S FICTION, is a figure who, whatever his patent medicine, often exerts the dangerous, diabolic control of a political hubris disguised as idealism. Recent ideological criticism of Hawthorne's major novels, however, has neglected Hawthorne's own discomfort with antebellum reformparticularly in the production of subjectivities. In the Pierce campaign biography, Hawthorne qualifies the expressed liber…
Francis Parkman's Ethnography of the Brahmin Caste and The History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac
Fonction et finalite sociale de la race dans L'Hisoire de la Conspiration de Pontiac de Parkman
Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance
Stephen Knadler, Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance: Remaking the Record in Nella Larsen's "Passing" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz", African American Review, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 99-118
Francis Parkman's Ethnography of the Brahmin Caste and The History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac
Fonction et finalite sociale de la race dans L'Hisoire de la Conspiration de Pontiac de Parkman
Hawthorne's Genealogy of Madness
THE REFORMER, A RECURRENT CHARACTER IN HAWTHORNE'S FICTION, is a figure who, whatever his patent medicine, often exerts the dangerous, diabolic control of a political hubris disguised as idealism. Recent ideological criticism of Hawthorne's major novels, however, has neglected Hawthorne's own discomfort with antebellum reformparticularly in the production of subjectivities. In the Pierce campaign biography, Hawthorne qualifies the expressed liber…
Sweetback Style
In a letter to William Jourdan Rapp, his collaborator on the plays "Harlem" and "Jeremiah the Magnificent," Wallace Thurman asserted that he wanted to formulate a "new philosophy for a new generation of younger Negroes." 1 To many of his contemporaries, Thurman not only failed to realize such a grandiose ambition, he disseminated instead what they labeled "effeminate Tommyrot" (qtd. in Thurman, "Negro Artists" 37). In such a "homophobic" denuncia…
Literatures of Memory
Book Review| June 01 2002 Literatures of Memory: History, Time, and Space in Postwar Writing By Peter Middleton and Tim Woods. Manchester, Eng.: Manchester Univ. Press. 2000. viii, 323 pp. Cloth; $69.95; paper, $29.95. Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 426–428. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Traumatized Racial Performativity
At the end of Frank Webb's 1857 novel, The Garies and Their Friends, the traditional sentimental ending of the marriage plot is interrupted by the repetition of a trauma that will not heal. 1 During the wedding ceremony of Charlie Ellis and Emily Garie, Webb pauses to witness the incomprehensible horror of Mr. Ellis's recurring, yet ultimately unspeakable pain. Several years earlier, while trying to warn the Garies of the antiblack mob's assault …
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature
Book Review| March 01 2003 Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence, 1680-1865 By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp.$34.95.By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xv,374 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this…
Mercy, Mercy Me
Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance
Stephen Knadler, Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance: Remaking the Record in Nella Larsen's "Passing" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz", African American Review, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 99-118
Liberation Historiography
Sensationalizing Patriotism
Research Article| December 01 2007 Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 673–699. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Knadler; Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutt…
Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire where many African Americans lived, worked and so…
De-regulating the History of African American Body Politics
King's Dream; American Prophecy
Book Review| December 01 2009 King's Dream; American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture Stephen Knadler Stephen Knadler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 869–871. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Knadler; King's Dream; American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Polit…
Unsanitized Domestic Allegories
“Unsanitized Domestic Allegories” begins the work of recovering the complex history linking Progressive-Era biomedicalization, gender expectations, and ideologies of racial uplift within African American culture. Through a close reading of early-twentieth-century African American health care activists, including C. V. Roman, founding member of the National Medical Association (1895) and the first editor of the Journal of the National Medical Asso…
Charisma and the Fictions of Black LeadershipExodus Politics
The election of Barack Obama as the first African American president has crowded a critical field within black studies seeking to decrypt the contradictions of our “Obama era”: How do we reconcile claims of colorblind equal opportunity and a tokenized minority difference with persistent material inequalities, racism, and the strategic exclusions of a criminalized poor? But if African Americanists have sought to account for Obama’s “failure” to fu…
Narrating Slow Violence
“Narrating Slow Violence: Post-Reconstruction Necropolitics and Speculating beyond Liberal Anti-Race Fiction” explores through the works of W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Chesnutt a post-Reconstruction racial order’s more dispersed, yet more virulent attritional biopolitics of “slow violence” and argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century African American writers turned to a speculative realism as a narrative strategy to give shape to the differential…
Playing in the White
The question of how we do critical race studies today in a post–identity politics academy drives a number of recent innovative and provocative books by Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Stephanie Li, and Cassander L. Smith. What works get put into an African American or Jewish canon? What methods do we use to analyze them? What work can literature and its empathetic identifications do as critical interventions? Although these monographs are built a…
None Like Us
Reviewed by: None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life by Stephen Best Stephen Knadler Stephen Best. None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life. Durham: Duke UP, 2018. 208 pp. $24.95. How and why do we read the archive? What does our engagement with a black past look like and to what extent is it driven by agendas—ethical, [End Page 158] political, and professional—that have not always been fully acknowledged and that need to be …
Opioid Storytelling
“Opioid Storytelling: Rehabilitating a White Disability Nationalism” argues that stories of the opioid crisis disseminate an emerging white disability nationalism that functions to morph and reconsolidate the “machinery of whiteness” around an affectively charged disability politics. Through a close reading of HBO's 2017 documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You , directed by Perri Peltz, as well as Beth Macy's New York Times best book of 2018,…
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations
“Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations” focuses on the neglected cognitive biopolitics in post-Reconstruction debates over African American progress and full democratic citizenship, in order to trace an unmarked African American neurodiverse disability history, or the antiableist imagining of neurological, cognitive, and psychological variations that existed before and persisted alongside the emergence of modern evolutionary- and hereditary-based diagnos…
Counterlife
Reviewed by: Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg Stephen Knadler Christopher Freeburg. Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death. Durham: Duke UP, 2021. 152 pp. $23.95. Even amid unspeakable grief, there has always been Black joy. Black people just existing, loving, laughing, loafing, not doing anything but pursuing their own personal meaning or spiritual bliss. The persistence of this exces…
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability
“Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Re-Constructing the Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy” fills a gap in nineteenth-century Black disability histories that have overlooked questions of chronic disabilities. In Iola Leroy, Harper writes from the perspective of the chronically disabled and offers fugitive figurations that exceed, resist, and stand apart from nineteenth-century representations of white true women’s i…
Black Madness
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