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Abstract: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, representing Ifemelu’s blogging in Americanah, shows Black immigrant communities revising public discourse on intersections of race, culture, and nationality, effectively expanding conceptions of Blackness in America. Ifemelu’s blogs, Raceteenth, or Various Observations about American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black and The Small Redemptions of Lagos are a dialogic digital literature functioning as a diasporic, communal textual space (Adichie 2014). Wendy Walters (2005, xxiii) observes that the discursive space of prose narrative is a site where Black writers shape their relationships to various notions of home beyond traditional national boundaries. In ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1623, John Donne contracted either typhoid fever, which had wiped out approximately 30 percent of Florence’s population, or the “relapsing fever,” which had become a near-epidemic in London (Christopher Black 2001, 24; Andrew Motion 1999, xii). Donne’s ailment displayed to him his lack of control in body and soul; just as he could not determine his eternal fate (according to seventeenth-century Calvinist beliefs), he also had no agency over his physical body. Inspired or tormented (or both), he composed his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. Donne’s words near the end of the Devotions have been read by scholars as hopeless and despairing: “I do nothing, I know nothing of myself; how little and how impotent a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Rumor has it that American poet and psychiatrist Merrill Moore (1903–1957) wrote at least fifty thousand sonnets in his fifty-four years (Moore 1938). The New York Times September 21, 1957, obituary for this “most prolific sonneteer in the history of English letters” puts the outside number at one hundred thousand. Whatever the exact figure, Moore produced enough poems to fill thirty steel cabinets in his so-called “sonnetorium,” an outbuilding in his Quincy, Massachusetts backyard. To explain this colossal body of work, critics point to Moore’s astonishing facility—the ease with which he could dash off a sonnet, usually four or five each evening after a full day of seeing patients in private practice and teaching ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The future of public transit in America perhaps never felt less assured than amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus had already produced unprecedented decreases in subway ridership when Governor Andrew Cuomo in March 2020 urged New Yorkers to avoid public transit, the lifeblood of the metropolitan area for conveying citizens and visitors to destinations professional and personal. Sanitation also halted overnight service for the first time in the system’s 115-year history; this four-hour daily cessation in the city that never sleeps symbolized the pandemic’s scale and persisted for a full year, from May 2020 through May 2021.Well before full-time service resumed, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The gamble of this paper is that we can usefully approach “the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction” (Coleridge 1975, 1) through recent work in the field of linguistics. The characterization of that controversy as “long continued” is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s, and one of my reasons for citing his 204-year-old phrase is to point to the inexhaustibility of the problem. But it is also the case that recent linguists’ attempts to place statistical habit at the core of our relation to the language around us open interesting links to the solutions Coleridge floated in his Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, back in 1817. I am referring to work ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One of the most enduring pieces of critical-philosophical writing on the work of William Faulkner is Jean-Paul Sartre’s short essay from 1939, “Temporality in Faulkner.” In addition to being an early—if not the first—phenomenological account of the “world” of The Sound and the Fury, Sartre’s essay offers a famous critique of the “action” of Faulknerian narration. At the heart of Sartre’s reading of Faulkner resides his conviction that Faulkner’s “metaphysics of time” remains so obsessively backward facing that it entirely precludes the future and makes the present “catastrophic.” As a result, Sartre will confess that he “loves” Faulkner’s “art” but rejects wholesale the catastrophe of “his metaphysics” (2013, 25). ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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