La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Biographic Data
| ID | 765710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | La Marr Jurelle Bruce |
| GIVEN NAMES | La Marr Jurelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruce |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCE M J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as "rage," and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he…
Shore, Unsure
Research Article| April 01 2019 SHORE, UNSURE: Loitering as a Way of Life La Marr Jurelle Bruce La Marr Jurelle Bruce La Marr Jurelle Bruce is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (forthcoming 2019), is a study of black artists who mobilize madness for radical art-making, self-making, and world-making. His s…
Mad Is a Place; or, the Slave Ship Tows the Ship of Fools
Mad Is a Place;or, the Slave Ship Tows the Ship of Fools La Marr Jurelle Bruce (bio) I. Mad Diasporas At the onset of Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault chases the ship of fools as it crisscrosses a mad diaspora. To have Foucault tell it, such ships were early modern nautical vessels whose lunatic occupants were deemed nuisances to their communities in Europe, expelled from home, made wards of sailors, and consigned to drift perpetually al…
Interludes in Madtime
Madtime is a renegade rhythm, a radical mode of doing and feeling time that coincides with phenomenologies of madness. This essay details four variations of madtime: the quick, restless time of mania; the slow, sorrowful time of depression; the infinite, exigent now of schizophrenia; and the spiraling, zigzagging now-then-now-then of melancholia. Madtime is unruly, smashing clocks, tearing calendars, building makeshift time machines, dancing to t…
The People Inside My Head, Too: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill was twenty-three years old when her 1998 solo debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , burst upon the global music market and swiftly became one of the most acclaimed and popular hip hop albums in history. Heralded by a hip hop beat, crooning love songs and rally cries, beaming black pride, and clamoring womanist wisdom, Hill scaled the treacherous summit of global pop stardom and was hailed as genius and prophetess. However, wi…
Mad Is a Place; or, the Slave Ship Tows the Ship of Fools
Mad Is a Place;or, the Slave Ship Tows the Ship of Fools La Marr Jurelle Bruce (bio) I. Mad Diasporas At the onset of Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault chases the ship of fools as it crisscrosses a mad diaspora. To have Foucault tell it, such ships were early modern nautical vessels whose lunatic occupants were deemed nuisances to their communities in Europe, expelled from home, made wards of sailors, and consigned to drift perpetually al…
Interludes in Madtime
Madtime is a renegade rhythm, a radical mode of doing and feeling time that coincides with phenomenologies of madness. This essay details four variations of madtime: the quick, restless time of mania; the slow, sorrowful time of depression; the infinite, exigent now of schizophrenia; and the spiraling, zigzagging now-then-now-then of melancholia. Madtime is unruly, smashing clocks, tearing calendars, building makeshift time machines, dancing to t…
Shore, Unsure
Research Article| April 01 2019 SHORE, UNSURE: Loitering as a Way of Life La Marr Jurelle Bruce La Marr Jurelle Bruce La Marr Jurelle Bruce is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (forthcoming 2019), is a study of black artists who mobilize madness for radical art-making, self-making, and world-making. His s…
The People Inside My Head, Too: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill was twenty-three years old when her 1998 solo debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , burst upon the global music market and swiftly became one of the most acclaimed and popular hip hop albums in history. Heralded by a hip hop beat, crooning love songs and rally cries, beaming black pride, and clamoring womanist wisdom, Hill scaled the treacherous summit of global pop stardom and was hailed as genius and prophetess. However, wi…
The People Inside My Head, Too: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill was twenty-three years old when her 1998 solo debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , burst upon the global music market and swiftly became one of the most acclaimed and popular hip hop albums in history. Heralded by a hip hop beat, crooning love songs and rally cries, beaming black pride, and clamoring womanist wisdom, Hill scaled the treacherous summit of global pop stardom and was hailed as genius and prophetess. However, wi…
Mad Is a Place; or, the Slave Ship Tows the Ship of Fools
Mad Is a Place;or, the Slave Ship Tows the Ship of Fools La Marr Jurelle Bruce (bio) I. Mad Diasporas At the onset of Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault chases the ship of fools as it crisscrosses a mad diaspora. To have Foucault tell it, such ships were early modern nautical vessels whose lunatic occupants were deemed nuisances to their communities in Europe, expelled from home, made wards of sailors, and consigned to drift perpetually al…
Interludes in Madtime
Madtime is a renegade rhythm, a radical mode of doing and feeling time that coincides with phenomenologies of madness. This essay details four variations of madtime: the quick, restless time of mania; the slow, sorrowful time of depression; the infinite, exigent now of schizophrenia; and the spiraling, zigzagging now-then-now-then of melancholia. Madtime is unruly, smashing clocks, tearing calendars, building makeshift time machines, dancing to t…
Shore, Unsure
Research Article| April 01 2019 SHORE, UNSURE: Loitering as a Way of Life La Marr Jurelle Bruce La Marr Jurelle Bruce La Marr Jurelle Bruce is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (forthcoming 2019), is a study of black artists who mobilize madness for radical art-making, self-making, and world-making. His s…
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as "rage," and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he…
Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · African American artists (1 works)