scholarly journals Why Are Writers of Color Underrepresented Among Published Authors? One Poet's Questions and Possible Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara B. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Writers Of Color

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Chow
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Natural History ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Racial Uplift ◽  
Nineteenth Century American Literature ◽  
Writers Of Color ◽  
Environmental Survival ◽  
Theories Of Evolution

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.

scholarly journals Stories To Be Told: A Qualitative Book Review of How Dare We! Write- A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wonbin Jung
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
American Culture ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Writers Of Color ◽  
Publishing World

How Dare We! Write – A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse (Lee, 2017) is an anthology of the stories that writers of color and LGBTQAI+ writers have experienced and still are experiencing in the mainstream publishing world, academia, and everyday life. The book is broken into five themes in which each writer describes experiences of publishing work in the White publishing world. They describe their cultures in an imperialistic language, English, and create stories that they as people of color can relate to such as being rejected by mentors and publishers and eventually letting themselves heal from the wounds caused by being silenced and confronted by the mainstream American culture.

scholarly journals An Interview with Joy Priest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Priest ◽  
Jari Bradley
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
American South ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Writers Of Color ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
New American Poetry ◽  
American Poets ◽  
The University

Joy Priest is the author of HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA fellow- ship and a 2019-2020 Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and has won the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from APR, and the Gearhart Poetry Prize from The Southeast Review. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Atlantic, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Her essays have appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Poets & Writers, ESPN, and The Undefeated, and her work has been anthologized in Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, The Louisville Anthology, A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South, and Best New Po- ets 2014, 2016 and 2019. Joy received her M.F.A. in poetry, with a certificate in Women & Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina. She is currently a doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

The Recappables: Exploring a Feminist Approach to Criticism

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-193
Author(s):  
Karen Petruska
Keyword(s):  
Writers Of Color ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Female Writers

AbstractThis article argues that television recaps are a unique critical genre that provide uncommon attention to women-targeted content. As an episodic form of critical engagement, recaps provide new opportunities for emerging female writers and writers of color to comment upon television’s representational challenges and successes. As women-targeted media gains new traction in the marketplace, recaps can not only be an important vehicle for needed commentary about undervalued content, but they also may serve as a marker of the value of these programs for a historically underserved audience. Featuring interviews with five recappers and two editors from major entertainment-focused publications including The AV Club, Vulture, Vox, Hello Beautiful, Go Fug Yourself and Buzzfeed, this article explores the recap as a distinct genre with feminist potential to elevate new voices, to disrupt traditional taste hierarchies, and to embrace pleasure as a measure of quality.

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Writers Of Color ◽  
Literary Movements ◽  
Ethnic Literatures ◽  
Guided Tour ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work Up

Over 1,500 entries For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present, with brief biographies of important authors, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the present day. In this second edition of the Concise version, Wendy Martin and Danielle Hinrichs bring the work up to date to more fully reflect the diversity of the subject. Their priorities have been, foremost, to fully represent the impact of writers of color and women writers on the field of American literature and to increase the usefulness of the work to students of literary theory. To this end, over 230 new entries have been added, including many that cover women authors; Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and other contemporary ethnic literatures; LGBT, trans, and queer studies; and recent literary movements and evolving areas of contemporary relevance such as eco-criticism, disability studies, whiteness studies, male/masculinity studies, and diaspora studies.

Taking Wilde to Sri Lanka and Beardsley to Harlem: Decadent Practice, Race, and Orientalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-606
Author(s):  
Kristin Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Writers Of Color ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Decadent Aesthetics ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

This article examines the reworking of decadence by writers of color in the early twentieth century, focusing on the uses to which the Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent and the Sri Lankan writer Lionel de Fonseka put decadent style while engaging in anticolonial critique and contesting rigid categories of power and identity. I read the implementation of decadent aesthetics by Nugent and de Fonseka as a form of criticism that teases out the troubles and potentialities of thinking race and empire through the lens of decadence.

“We'll Make Magic”: Zen Writers and Autofictional Readers in A Tale for the Time Being

Genre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-109
Author(s):  
Marjorie Worthington
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
White Male ◽  
Writers Of Color ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
Literary Context

Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being is an autofiction—a novel whose protagonist is a characterized version of its author and thereby straddles the line between memoir and fiction. In an American literary context, autofiction is a genre dominated by white male authors. This article argues that Ozeki's approach to autofiction is vastly different from that of most of her white, male counterparts in that the author-character “Ruth” does not lay sole claim to authorial authority, but rather works collaboratively with other characters to share creative power and the responsibility that comes with it. This innovative tactic helps chart a potential course for autofiction by women writers and writers of color.

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