Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated-and were exacerbated by-the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemic that would plague the city for the next year. Of its 12,000 inhabitants, nearly fifty percent were ......
Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated-and were exacerbated by-the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemic that would plague the city for the next year. Of its 12,000 inhabitants, nearly fifty percent were ......
Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology-a small, outsider literary collection-as a key, yet understudied, instrument of literary intervention within American modernism. Whit Frazier Peterson argues that these anthologies, produced outside of institutional or ......
Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology-a small, outsider literary collection-as a key, yet understudied, instrument of literary intervention within American modernism. Whit Frazier Peterson argues that these anthologies, produced outside of institutional or ......
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe Young that became the team's unofficial mascot for several players and many in the local press. This seemingly innocent stuffed animal ......
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe Young that became the team's unofficial mascot for several players and many in the local press. This seemingly innocent stuffed animal was ......
A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In the 1940s, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outpost for the United States. For a power claiming global leadership in a decolonizing world, however, the ......
A dazzling debut that blends folklore with the everyday Drifting between the past and present, the material and the otherworldly, Who Follow the Gleam melts lore and magic with history to shape distinctive narratives of childhood, fatherhood, and personhood. In his debut poetry collection, Christian Wessels crosses centuries and takes his ......
Poems that question the world with tenderness and restless introspection In I Love You But I Don't Speak Your Language, brushes with the profound may lead to brushes with the mundane, or vice versa. Cause and effect become unreasoned and transcendent, at times lifting the arbitrary into the sublime or the sublime into happenstance. ......
