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Nella Larsen's Letters, 1917-1935
No full text_Nella Larsen's Letters, 1917-1935_ is the first comprehensive collection of Larsen's letters. It includes letters from a variety of archival collections, and many letters are here published for the first time. The volume also comprises two critical essays on Larsen's work and a few miscellaneous materials, including a previously unpublished interview with Marion L. Starkey and the 1931 reader's report on Larsen's "Mirage.
Introduction to _Nella Larsen's Latters, 1917-1935_
No full textThe essay discusses the relevance of Larsen's correspondence with Carl Van Vechten, Dorothy Peterson, and other intellectuals of her time.
The editors foreground how Larsen's letters are revelatory of her thoughts and concerns about her writing and the creative process. They also emphasize the importance of the 1931 reader's report on Larsen's unpublished manuscript "Mirage," since it dispels the erroneous commonplace tha Larsen's stopped writing after "Sanctuary" (1930)
The Strange Career of a Black Utopia: Ethiopia, The Land of Promise. A Book with a Purpose, by Charles Henry Holmes (aka Clayton Adams)
No full textThis essay presents archival information about Charles H. Holmes and argues that his understudied novel, Ethiopia, The Land of Promise (1917), represents an important chapter in the history of Afrofuturism and American speculative fiction. The literary critical relevance of Ethiopia emerges forcefully from Holmes’s intertextual dialogue with other utopian and science fiction authors, such as Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, Frances E.W. Harper, Edward Bellamy, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Holmes’s critique of Jim Crow segregation enables the articulation of a “distinctly revolutionary” project for African American futurity
Paralleli pericolosi.
No full textReview of the first Italian edition of Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant's 1893 utopian novel _Unveiling a Parallel_
"He Like a Wind Cloud Flew": The Speculative Narrative Politics of Travel in Clotel, The Heroic Slave, and Blake
No full textThe essay offers a novel approach to the intertextual connections between antebellum authors such as Brown, Douglass, and Delany by exploring how they mobilized travel, a characterizing trope of speculative fiction, to articulate aesthetic and political projects of liberation
“What Irene Redfield Remembered:" Making It New in Nella Larsen’s Passing
No full textThrough a critically updated and comprehensive reconsideration of Nella Larsen’s writerly strategies in Passing, this essay examines her groundbreaking revision of the tragic mulatta character and her ironic critique of the reading practices associated with it. The essay foregrounds how Larsen’s interest in “the psychology of the scene,” as she defined it, enables a new, sophisticated Modernist version of the passing narrative that de-familiarizes the race and gender assumptions popularly associated with the figure of the passer and compels a re-reading of the entire tradition
"Reading Black Women Writers"
No full textThe essay discusses Barbara Christian's literary critical work, focusing on her methodology and on the international impact of her pioneering articulation of innovative readings of the works of writers who would later become generally celebrated
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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