Cynthia Dobbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 846854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Dobbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobbs |
| SIGNATURE | DOBBS C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diagnosis Race
"Diagnosis Race" provides an analysis of poet Claudia Rankine's representations of "John Henryism" and "weathering," public health terms for persistent disparities in health outcomes for African Americans, regardless of socio-economic status and education level. I argue that Rankine's experimental multi-media collections Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) and Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) create a necessary new genre for our tim…
Mapping Black Movement, Containing Black Laughter
This essay analyzes Ralph Ellison’s nonfiction about New York during the Harlem Renaissance—especially his essay “An Extravagance of Laughter” and its redacted version as Esquire magazine’s “New York, 1936”—as way to engage with larger questions of movement in and through what Houston Baker dubs “the American geography of race.” Ellison’s 1986 account of his mapping of the inscrutable spaces of the urban North fifty years earlier yields, I argue,…
Between Catastrophe and Carnival
This cluster of "Life Stories from the Creole City" brings together essays that focus on fi gures negotiating subjectivity within different "creole cities" at specifi c historical junctures, as these urban spaces become compelling sites for narrating subjectivity in negotiation with forces of globalization, diaspora, and cosmopolitanism. The essays variously illuminate the diffi culties and payoffs associated with narrating lives in-and of-porous…
Diasporic Designs of House, Home, and Haven in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Journal Article Diasporic Designs of House, Home, and Haven in Toni Morrison’s Paradise Get access Cynthia Dobbs Cynthia Dobbs University of the Pacific Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 109–126, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0020 Published: 01 June 2011
Flooded
Research Article| December 01 2001 Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capitalism in Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem Cynthia Dobbs Cynthia Dobbs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-811 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Cynthia Dobbs; Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capit…
Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Mapping Black Movement, Containing Black Laughter
This essay analyzes Ralph Ellison’s nonfiction about New York during the Harlem Renaissance—especially his essay “An Extravagance of Laughter” and its redacted version as Esquire magazine’s “New York, 1936”—as way to engage with larger questions of movement in and through what Houston Baker dubs “the American geography of race.” Ellison’s 1986 account of his mapping of the inscrutable spaces of the urban North fifty years earlier yields, I argue,…
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle
Flooded
Research Article| December 01 2001 Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capitalism in Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem Cynthia Dobbs Cynthia Dobbs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-811 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Cynthia Dobbs; Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capit…
Diasporic Designs of House, Home, and Haven in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Journal Article Diasporic Designs of House, Home, and Haven in Toni Morrison’s Paradise Get access Cynthia Dobbs Cynthia Dobbs University of the Pacific Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 109–126, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0020 Published: 01 June 2011
Between Catastrophe and Carnival
This cluster of "Life Stories from the Creole City" brings together essays that focus on fi gures negotiating subjectivity within different "creole cities" at specifi c historical junctures, as these urban spaces become compelling sites for narrating subjectivity in negotiation with forces of globalization, diaspora, and cosmopolitanism. The essays variously illuminate the diffi culties and payoffs associated with narrating lives in-and of-porous…
Mapping Black Movement, Containing Black Laughter
This essay analyzes Ralph Ellison’s nonfiction about New York during the Harlem Renaissance—especially his essay “An Extravagance of Laughter” and its redacted version as Esquire magazine’s “New York, 1936”—as way to engage with larger questions of movement in and through what Houston Baker dubs “the American geography of race.” Ellison’s 1986 account of his mapping of the inscrutable spaces of the urban North fifty years earlier yields, I argue,…
Diagnosis Race
"Diagnosis Race" provides an analysis of poet Claudia Rankine's representations of "John Henryism" and "weathering," public health terms for persistent disparities in health outcomes for African Americans, regardless of socio-economic status and education level. I argue that Rankine's experimental multi-media collections Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) and Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) create a necessary new genre for our tim…
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works)