Sonya Posmentier
Biographic Data
| ID | 818510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonya Posmentier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonya |
| FAMILY NAME | Posmentier |
| SIGNATURE | POSMENTIER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poetry on the edge
This afterword responds to the essays collected in the special issue of “Poetics from the Global South” by turning to a scene of North/South encounter: the 1975 First International Symposium on Ethnopoetics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, organized by the editors of the literary journal Alcheringa. I focus on the contributions of two Caribbean writers – the Jamaican novelist and scholar Sylvia Wynter and Martinican-born poet and philoso…
"Sanctuary without a State, or, "Dear Friend
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities - Volume 10, Number 1-2, Winter 2022/Spring 2023
Lyric Reading in the Black Ethnographic Archive
Journal Article Lyric Reading in the Black Ethnographic Archive Get access Sonya Posmentier Sonya Posmentier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 30, Issue 1, Spring 2018, Pages 55–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajx047 Published: 20 December 2017 Article history Received: 27 March 2017 Revision received: 14 September 2017 Accepted: 26 November 2017 Published: 20 December 2017
The Social Imperative
In Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (2017), Joseph North defends close reading, arguing compellingly that its waning constitutes the depoliticization of literary study, a regrettable move from interventionist criticism to historicist scholarship. According to North, “race critique” was part of a “storm” of challenges to midcentury critical norms that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and collectively represented a false sense of liter…
The Future of Callaloo
The Future of CallalooA Round Table* Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), Robert Reid-Pharr (bio), LeRonn P. Brooks (bio), Hermine Pinson (bio), Jean-Paul Rocchi (bio), Hortense Spillers (bio), Vievee Francis (bio), Ebony Bailey (bio), and Sonya Posmentier (bio) WOUBSHET: Welcome to the last session of this conference and celebration of Callaloo’s 40th anniversary. The panel is called “The Future of Callaloo: A Round Table.” If you are looking at the program,…
The Slave in the Great House
This chapter expands the volume’s focus beyond the United States, exploring black diasporic relationships to property as theorized through poetic form. In his 1978 poem “The Star-Apple Kingdom,” set in Jamaica, poet Derek Walcott asks whether there are alternative ways for black subjects to relate to land and the environment beyond the rubrics of property, ownership, and nation. By drawing on the geography of the Caribbean archipelago, and practi…
The Provision Ground in New York
Reading Claude McKay’s “The Tropics in New York” as a twentieth-century aesthetic equivalent of a slave provision ground, Posmentier argues that the poem asserts cultural autonomy even in the face of the dislocation it describes. In doing so, she suggests that formal lyric poetry can share the burdens and possibilities of these agricultural spaces, insofar as it takes shape in relationship to an oppressive colonial tradition while defining a blac…
The Provision Ground in New York
Reading Claude McKay’s “The Tropics in New York” as a twentieth-century aesthetic equivalent of a slave provision ground, Posmentier argues that the poem asserts cultural autonomy even in the face of the dislocation it describes. In doing so, she suggests that formal lyric poetry can share the burdens and possibilities of these agricultural spaces, insofar as it takes shape in relationship to an oppressive colonial tradition while defining a blac…
The Provision Ground in New York
Reading Claude McKay’s “The Tropics in New York” as a twentieth-century aesthetic equivalent of a slave provision ground, Posmentier argues that the poem asserts cultural autonomy even in the face of the dislocation it describes. In doing so, she suggests that formal lyric poetry can share the burdens and possibilities of these agricultural spaces, insofar as it takes shape in relationship to an oppressive colonial tradition while defining a blac…
The Slave in the Great House
This chapter expands the volume’s focus beyond the United States, exploring black diasporic relationships to property as theorized through poetic form. In his 1978 poem “The Star-Apple Kingdom,” set in Jamaica, poet Derek Walcott asks whether there are alternative ways for black subjects to relate to land and the environment beyond the rubrics of property, ownership, and nation. By drawing on the geography of the Caribbean archipelago, and practi…
The Social Imperative
In Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (2017), Joseph North defends close reading, arguing compellingly that its waning constitutes the depoliticization of literary study, a regrettable move from interventionist criticism to historicist scholarship. According to North, “race critique” was part of a “storm” of challenges to midcentury critical norms that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and collectively represented a false sense of liter…
The Future of Callaloo
The Future of CallalooA Round Table* Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), Robert Reid-Pharr (bio), LeRonn P. Brooks (bio), Hermine Pinson (bio), Jean-Paul Rocchi (bio), Hortense Spillers (bio), Vievee Francis (bio), Ebony Bailey (bio), and Sonya Posmentier (bio) WOUBSHET: Welcome to the last session of this conference and celebration of Callaloo’s 40th anniversary. The panel is called “The Future of Callaloo: A Round Table.” If you are looking at the program,…
Lyric Reading in the Black Ethnographic Archive
Journal Article Lyric Reading in the Black Ethnographic Archive Get access Sonya Posmentier Sonya Posmentier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 30, Issue 1, Spring 2018, Pages 55–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajx047 Published: 20 December 2017 Article history Received: 27 March 2017 Revision received: 14 September 2017 Accepted: 26 November 2017 Published: 20 December 2017
"Sanctuary without a State, or, "Dear Friend
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities - Volume 10, Number 1-2, Winter 2022/Spring 2023
Poetry on the edge
This afterword responds to the essays collected in the special issue of “Poetics from the Global South” by turning to a scene of North/South encounter: the 1975 First International Symposium on Ethnopoetics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, organized by the editors of the literary journal Alcheringa. I focus on the contributions of two Caribbean writers – the Jamaican novelist and scholar Sylvia Wynter and Martinican-born poet and philoso…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literary criticism (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works)