Jonathan P Eburne
Biographic Data
| ID | 970539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan P Eburne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Eburne |
| SIGNATURE | EBURNE J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Surrealism, Existentialism, and Fictions of Blackness
This chapter examines the history of Black diasporic fiction in the Atlantic world as it informed, and continues to be informed by, the artistic and geopolitical coordinates of the surrealist movement. From the surrealist interest in and appropriation of Blackness in Jazz-age Paris through the post-WWII development of pan-African and Third World movements, the writing and cultural production of African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American intell…
What Will You Make
Research Article| November 01 2022 What Will You Make?: The Bookstore as a Critical-Creative Act Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne teaches at Penn State University, where he is a professor of comparative literature, English, and French and Francophone studies. He is the author of Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (2018), which received the 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language As…
Decolonial Surrealism
This chapter tells the story of surrealism during the period of decolonization (and neoliberal re-entrenchment) that extends roughly from the end of World War II to the contemporary moment. It traces the overlapping but also discontinuous genealogies according to which anticolonial movements throughout the world – and in particular throughout the Global South – drew upon, rejected, and reinvented surrealist thinking. By studying surrealism as an …
Outsider Theory
The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons
The Terror of Being Destroyed
This essay focuses on James Baldwin's treatment of the Atlanta child murders in The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985), a book that began as a series of reports for Playboy magazine. Returning to the United States from France, Baldwin not only reported on the child murders, but offered a treatise on terror as well: a treatise that distinguishes an imagined or remembered menace from a terror that might be considered constitutive, ontolological. Th…
The Mummy's Curse
Garveyism and Its Involutions
This paper studies the formal-rather than strictly political or ideological-significance of the life and thought of Marcus Garvey. Heeding the deeply ambivalent and often paradoxical reception of "Garveyism" by black intellectuals and writers since the early 1920s, it examines the intellectual significance of Garvey's speculations. In particular, the essay focuses on the historical forms upon which Garvey's business practices and organizations we…
Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
"Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris--whether literally or imaginatively--by black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editor…
The Noir Atlantic
Early in his 1985 novel Cercueil et Cie. (Coffin and Co.), the Cameroonian writer Simon Njami introduces two protagonists, the Harlem police detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Their names sound familiar; indeed, as the story goes, Njami's detectives have been posing for nearly thirty years as the real-life sources for the characters in novels by another author, the expatriate African American writer Chester Himes, whose Harlem c…
A Critique of Europe
The European Union arose out of humanist moral beliefs and, at the beginning, it was an economic much more than a directly political project. It is today in a deep state of crisis and is being challenged by nationalist or national-populist movements that have strong historical resources and can speak in the name of a cultural, linguistic, or religious past, on the one hand, and that have good reasons to criticize Europe from an economic perspecti…
The Chef Drive
Avant-Garde Fascism
The Future of Irrevolution
Introduction
Introduction:A special section on Chester Himes Jonathan P. Eburne (bio) and Kevin Bell (bio) "Let it first be stated," writes Chester Himes in an early essay for the September 1942 issue of Opportunity, "that the character of this writer is vulnerable, open to attack, easy to be smeared; that the strength of this writer is questionable, his person inconsequential, insignificant; that the name of this writer will soon be forgotten" ("Now is the T…
Everyday Life
Book Review| January 01 2008 Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the PresentSheringham, Michael Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (3): 396–398. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659672 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonath…
Introduction
Introduction:Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic Jonathan P. Eburne and Jeremy Braddock (bio) I can tell you everything. I've met so many men and women who came in droves to cling on to the city. Paris. An image, a perfume, a sunless mirage, without trees. —Calixthe Beyala, Loukoum: The "Little Prince" of Belleville LUMUMBA LOUIS ARMSTRONG PATRICE AND PATTI PAGE HAMUBURGERS PEPSI-COLA KING COLE JUKEBOX PAYOLA IN THE QUARTER OF THE NEGROES GOD WI…
Everyday Life
Book Review| January 01 2008 Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the PresentSheringham, Michael Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (3): 396–398. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659672 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonath…
Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
"Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris--whether literally or imaginatively--by black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editor…
Outsider Theory
Garveyism and Its Involutions
This paper studies the formal-rather than strictly political or ideological-significance of the life and thought of Marcus Garvey. Heeding the deeply ambivalent and often paradoxical reception of "Garveyism" by black intellectuals and writers since the early 1920s, it examines the intellectual significance of Garvey's speculations. In particular, the essay focuses on the historical forms upon which Garvey's business practices and organizations we…
A Critique of Europe
The European Union arose out of humanist moral beliefs and, at the beginning, it was an economic much more than a directly political project. It is today in a deep state of crisis and is being challenged by nationalist or national-populist movements that have strong historical resources and can speak in the name of a cultural, linguistic, or religious past, on the one hand, and that have good reasons to criticize Europe from an economic perspecti…
Introduction
Introduction:Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic Jonathan P. Eburne and Jeremy Braddock (bio) I can tell you everything. I've met so many men and women who came in droves to cling on to the city. Paris. An image, a perfume, a sunless mirage, without trees. —Calixthe Beyala, Loukoum: The "Little Prince" of Belleville LUMUMBA LOUIS ARMSTRONG PATRICE AND PATTI PAGE HAMUBURGERS PEPSI-COLA KING COLE JUKEBOX PAYOLA IN THE QUARTER OF THE NEGROES GOD WI…
Everyday Life
Book Review| January 01 2008 Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the PresentSheringham, Michael Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (3): 396–398. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659672 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonath…
Introduction
Introduction:A special section on Chester Himes Jonathan P. Eburne (bio) and Kevin Bell (bio) "Let it first be stated," writes Chester Himes in an early essay for the September 1942 issue of Opportunity, "that the character of this writer is vulnerable, open to attack, easy to be smeared; that the strength of this writer is questionable, his person inconsequential, insignificant; that the name of this writer will soon be forgotten" ("Now is the T…
The Chef Drive
Avant-Garde Fascism
The Future of Irrevolution
A Critique of Europe
The European Union arose out of humanist moral beliefs and, at the beginning, it was an economic much more than a directly political project. It is today in a deep state of crisis and is being challenged by nationalist or national-populist movements that have strong historical resources and can speak in the name of a cultural, linguistic, or religious past, on the one hand, and that have good reasons to criticize Europe from an economic perspecti…
Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
"Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris--whether literally or imaginatively--by black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editor…
The Noir Atlantic
Early in his 1985 novel Cercueil et Cie. (Coffin and Co.), the Cameroonian writer Simon Njami introduces two protagonists, the Harlem police detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Their names sound familiar; indeed, as the story goes, Njami's detectives have been posing for nearly thirty years as the real-life sources for the characters in novels by another author, the expatriate African American writer Chester Himes, whose Harlem c…
The Mummy's Curse
Garveyism and Its Involutions
This paper studies the formal-rather than strictly political or ideological-significance of the life and thought of Marcus Garvey. Heeding the deeply ambivalent and often paradoxical reception of "Garveyism" by black intellectuals and writers since the early 1920s, it examines the intellectual significance of Garvey's speculations. In particular, the essay focuses on the historical forms upon which Garvey's business practices and organizations we…
The Terror of Being Destroyed
This essay focuses on James Baldwin's treatment of the Atlanta child murders in The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985), a book that began as a series of reports for Playboy magazine. Returning to the United States from France, Baldwin not only reported on the child murders, but offered a treatise on terror as well: a treatise that distinguishes an imagined or remembered menace from a terror that might be considered constitutive, ontolological. Th…
The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons
Outsider Theory
Decolonial Surrealism
This chapter tells the story of surrealism during the period of decolonization (and neoliberal re-entrenchment) that extends roughly from the end of World War II to the contemporary moment. It traces the overlapping but also discontinuous genealogies according to which anticolonial movements throughout the world – and in particular throughout the Global South – drew upon, rejected, and reinvented surrealist thinking. By studying surrealism as an …
What Will You Make
Research Article| November 01 2022 What Will You Make?: The Bookstore as a Critical-Creative Act Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne Jonathan P. Eburne teaches at Penn State University, where he is a professor of comparative literature, English, and French and Francophone studies. He is the author of Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (2018), which received the 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language As…
Surrealism, Existentialism, and Fictions of Blackness
This chapter examines the history of Black diasporic fiction in the Atlantic world as it informed, and continues to be informed by, the artistic and geopolitical coordinates of the surrealist movement. From the surrealist interest in and appropriation of Blackness in Jazz-age Paris through the post-WWII development of pan-African and Third World movements, the writing and cultural production of African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American intell…
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