Richard Hardack
Biographic Data
| ID | 968750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hardack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardack |
| SIGNATURE | HARDACK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It's Always Already Too Late for White Men
Your Call Is Very Important to Us
Chapter Twenty-Two. Immortality and Impersonation
In a unique exploration of how corporations appropriate the rights and identities of people, Richard Hardack unearths the unexpected consequences of corporate America’s quest to dominate every aspect of our culture
“Bright Days for the Black Market”
In this article, I explore how and why the black market, an economy initially identified as a response to the exigencies of wartime scarcity and prohibitions of contraband, has come to represent not a temporary alternative economy, but a permanent and predominant method of exchange in a specific strain of post-war U.S. culture. Many of the works I address treat the black market both as a manifestation of an historically-specific economy in crisis…
To the Nomadic State
In this artice, I explore how Hawthorne addresses the relationship between spatial and social mobility in his depictions of railroads, and I partly focus on the chapter in The House of the Seven Gables in which Clifford and Hepzibah travel by train. Clifford’s reaction to the new spatialisation the railroad augured encapsulates one of the novels’ central concerns – how travel and mobility will eviscerate, or emancipate us from, social bonds. For …
New and Improved
Corporate personhood is part of a zero-sum game in which human traits and privileges are transferred to corporations; conversely, actual persons become, largely without their realization, more impersonal and generic, and increasingly defined by their relations to things. Advertising is the life writing of the non-existent corporate person, which is retroactively created by a form of commercial speech whose "author" claims the privileges of politi…
Revealing the bidder
In The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon transposes the Oedipus myth from tragedy to comedy by changing the gender and developmental model of the Oedipus figure. Pynchon disavowed the novel as a failed experiment that documents his own forgetfulness. How does this ‘post-Oedipal’ forgetting relate to the novel's protagonist? What Oedipa Maas forgets to include in her search is herself. Pynchon might have partly disowned Lot 49 because it is reducible, in …
Or, the Whale”
Or the Whale
Black Skin, White Tissues
Black Skin, White Tissues: Local Color and Universal Solvents in the Novels of Charles Johnson Richard Hardack* (bio) 1. Black Skin In his postmodern novels Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage—and in passing, Faith and the Good Thing, Johnsonian pun intended—Charles Johnson implies that African Americans lacked access to a Jacksonian self during the American Renaissance. As such they were dispossessed of a transcendentalism rightly theirs—what John…
Toni Morrison
The 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison is well established as one of the leading voices in American letters. Even so, her novels are often read narrowly rather than expansively, read as literary artifacts rather than as dynamic cultural texts. Without ignoring the literary and artistic achievements of Morrison's writing, Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches calls attention to the cultural and political dimensions of he…
Duco van Oostium's 'Male Authors, Female Subjets. The Woman Within/Beyond the Borders of Henry Adams, Henry Adams and Others
A Music Seeking Its Words
“A Music Seeking Its Words” Double-Timing and Double-Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s Jazz Richard Hardack (bio) “ . . . the music the world makes has no words . . .” —Jazz 1 W.E.B. Du Bois claimed that American blacks possess a double-consciousness, “two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,” with neither necessarily triumphant. 2 Representing an African, an American, a male and a female, this African-American body becomes…
Black Skin, White Tissues
Black Skin, White Tissues: Local Color and Universal Solvents in the Novels of Charles Johnson Richard Hardack* (bio) 1. Black Skin In his postmodern novels Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage—and in passing, Faith and the Good Thing, Johnsonian pun intended—Charles Johnson implies that African Americans lacked access to a Jacksonian self during the American Renaissance. As such they were dispossessed of a transcendentalism rightly theirs—what John…
A Music Seeking Its Words
“A Music Seeking Its Words” Double-Timing and Double-Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s Jazz Richard Hardack (bio) “ . . . the music the world makes has no words . . .” —Jazz 1 W.E.B. Du Bois claimed that American blacks possess a double-consciousness, “two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,” with neither necessarily triumphant. 2 Representing an African, an American, a male and a female, this African-American body becomes…
Toni Morrison
The 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison is well established as one of the leading voices in American letters. Even so, her novels are often read narrowly rather than expansively, read as literary artifacts rather than as dynamic cultural texts. Without ignoring the literary and artistic achievements of Morrison's writing, Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches calls attention to the cultural and political dimensions of he…
Duco van Oostium's 'Male Authors, Female Subjets. The Woman Within/Beyond the Borders of Henry Adams, Henry Adams and Others
Black Skin, White Tissues
Black Skin, White Tissues: Local Color and Universal Solvents in the Novels of Charles Johnson Richard Hardack* (bio) 1. Black Skin In his postmodern novels Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage—and in passing, Faith and the Good Thing, Johnsonian pun intended—Charles Johnson implies that African Americans lacked access to a Jacksonian self during the American Renaissance. As such they were dispossessed of a transcendentalism rightly theirs—what John…
Or the Whale
Or, the Whale”
Revealing the bidder
In The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon transposes the Oedipus myth from tragedy to comedy by changing the gender and developmental model of the Oedipus figure. Pynchon disavowed the novel as a failed experiment that documents his own forgetfulness. How does this ‘post-Oedipal’ forgetting relate to the novel's protagonist? What Oedipa Maas forgets to include in her search is herself. Pynchon might have partly disowned Lot 49 because it is reducible, in …
New and Improved
Corporate personhood is part of a zero-sum game in which human traits and privileges are transferred to corporations; conversely, actual persons become, largely without their realization, more impersonal and generic, and increasingly defined by their relations to things. Advertising is the life writing of the non-existent corporate person, which is retroactively created by a form of commercial speech whose "author" claims the privileges of politi…
“Bright Days for the Black Market”
In this article, I explore how and why the black market, an economy initially identified as a response to the exigencies of wartime scarcity and prohibitions of contraband, has come to represent not a temporary alternative economy, but a permanent and predominant method of exchange in a specific strain of post-war U.S. culture. Many of the works I address treat the black market both as a manifestation of an historically-specific economy in crisis…
To the Nomadic State
In this artice, I explore how Hawthorne addresses the relationship between spatial and social mobility in his depictions of railroads, and I partly focus on the chapter in The House of the Seven Gables in which Clifford and Hepzibah travel by train. Clifford’s reaction to the new spatialisation the railroad augured encapsulates one of the novels’ central concerns – how travel and mobility will eviscerate, or emancipate us from, social bonds. For …
Your Call Is Very Important to Us
Chapter Twenty-Two. Immortality and Impersonation
In a unique exploration of how corporations appropriate the rights and identities of people, Richard Hardack unearths the unexpected consequences of corporate America’s quest to dominate every aspect of our culture
It's Always Already Too Late for White Men
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