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Matthew Henson And The Antinomies Of Racial Uplift, Anthony S. Foy
Matthew Henson And The Antinomies Of Racial Uplift, Anthony S. Foy
English Literature Faculty Works
Matthew Henson's 1912 memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, seems to adopt a vindicationist discourse of work, merit, and recognition that accords with Booker T. Washington's vision for racial progress, but Henson's narrative actually demonstrates how such a discourse inadequately resolves the complex tangle of race, masculinity, and citizenship during the Jim Crow era.
Novel/Cinema/Photo: Intertextual Readings Of “The Namesake”, Bakirathi Mani
Novel/Cinema/Photo: Intertextual Readings Of “The Namesake”, Bakirathi Mani
English Literature Faculty Works
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Swarthmore College: The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna T. Levine , '12, Richard Li , '11
Swarthmore College: The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna T. Levine , '12, Richard Li , '11
English Literature Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan
The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan
English Literature Faculty Works
The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms - the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them - dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly plagued the discipline of English in recent years. In Brooks's classroom - long figured as a foundational site for our discipline - we draw out, alongside Brooks's strong theory of the marginal and rarified status of …