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"She Believes She Is Herself, Which Isn't Complete Madness:" Becoming The Female Subject Through Womanhood As Relation, Isabel Rudner
"She Believes She Is Herself, Which Isn't Complete Madness:" Becoming The Female Subject Through Womanhood As Relation, Isabel Rudner
Senior Projects Fall 2020
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
"Yells Of Life In Constant Change": The Sonorous Criticism Of Amiri Baraka, Jack Luis Mckeon
"Yells Of Life In Constant Change": The Sonorous Criticism Of Amiri Baraka, Jack Luis Mckeon
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My research engages intersections of the racial and the sonic in the cultural criticism of poet and playwright Amiri Baraka. Focusing primarily on his music and political criticism published between 1961 and 1971, I am interested in questions of vernacular performance, as well as tensions between the verbal and the vocal that arise in his work. This project began with an interest in locating and understanding the moment in Baraka’s work where he began to turn away from the poetic style of contemporaries such as Frank O’Hara and Gary Snyder, choosing instead to shift towards a style reminiscent of jazz …