Cassander L Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 7147541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassander L Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassander L |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature and Early American Literature
Editor Latoya Jefferson-James and the contributors to this volume undertake the vital task of reexamining Black women's writings from a diasporic perspective. Positioning eighteenth-century Black poet Phillis Wheatley as a literary progenitor, the volume illuminates a transnational and transhistorical community of Black women writers that emerges over two and a half centuries. The aim of the volume, as Jefferson-James explains in the volume's pre…
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
For They are Naturally Born’
George Best employs racial rhetoric in his exploration narrative to contemplate and order human difference. This essay examines the ways in which that racial rhetoric, informed by prior English understandings of sub-Saharan Africa, disrupts the narrative as Best grapples with cosmographical quandaries, not the least of which is how and where American indigenous groups fit into a larger world order. Close reading of the textual and rhetorical feat…
Beyond the Mediation
Beyond the MediationEsteban, Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación, and a Narrative Negotiation Cassander L. Smith (bio) In 1536 four men stumbled into the Spanish province of Nueva Galicia in northwest Mexico. They were weary, tanned, and unkempt, after having endured nearly a decade of hardships—starvation, shipwrecks, disease, captivity by Gulf Coast Indians—while trekking through regions of present-day Florida, Texas, and north Mexico. These men were the…
Sarah M. Pearsall. Atlantic Families
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Beyond the Mediation
Beyond the MediationEsteban, Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación, and a Narrative Negotiation Cassander L. Smith (bio) In 1536 four men stumbled into the Spanish province of Nueva Galicia in northwest Mexico. They were weary, tanned, and unkempt, after having endured nearly a decade of hardships—starvation, shipwrecks, disease, captivity by Gulf Coast Indians—while trekking through regions of present-day Florida, Texas, and north Mexico. These men were the…
Sarah M. Pearsall. Atlantic Families
For They are Naturally Born’
George Best employs racial rhetoric in his exploration narrative to contemplate and order human difference. This essay examines the ways in which that racial rhetoric, informed by prior English understandings of sub-Saharan Africa, disrupts the narrative as Best grapples with cosmographical quandaries, not the least of which is how and where American indigenous groups fit into a larger world order. Close reading of the textual and rhetorical feat…
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature and Early American Literature
Editor Latoya Jefferson-James and the contributors to this volume undertake the vital task of reexamining Black women's writings from a diasporic perspective. Positioning eighteenth-century Black poet Phillis Wheatley as a literary progenitor, the volume illuminates a transnational and transhistorical community of Black women writers that emerges over two and a half centuries. The aim of the volume, as Jefferson-James explains in the volume's pre…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works)