Literary Imagination: A Special Issue on Race and Literature

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Literary Imagination: A Special Issue on Race and Literature
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
6 pm EDT

Moderator: Rosanna Warren, Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago

Panelists and contributors:

Major Jackson, Gertrude Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
Robert Levine, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Dante Micheaux, Poet
Rebecca Rainof, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
Elizabeth Samet, Professor of English, West Point
Lenora Warren, Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University

CONTENTS: SPECIAL ISSUE, Fall 2021

Introduction, Ernest Suarez

ESSAYS

John Burt, ‘Political Violence and the Persuasive Engagement in Frederick Douglass’
Rebecca Rainof, ‘Mixed Feelings’
Robert S. Levine, ‘Isabel Wilkerson, Albion Tourgée, and the Problem of Caste in the United States’
Brian Richardson, ‘The New Formalism and Heart of Darkness: Aesthetic and Ideological Parallels, Oppositions, and Symmetries’
Debra Romanick Baldwin, ‘Teaching Heart of Darkness Now’
Diana Senechal, ‘Plessy v. Ferguson and the Dissenting Opinion in the Classroom’
David Mikics, ‘Ellison’s Invisible Man and Faulkner’s Light in August: An Argument over Black and White’
David Bromwich, ‘Ellison and the Visibility of Laughter’
Elizabeth Samet, ‘Undressing Tragedy’s Skeleton’
Ruth Williams, ‘Writing White: Martha Collins’ Poetry of Collective Memory’
Lenora Warren, ‘ “Black Artillery”: Herman Melville and the Unthinkability of White Mob Violence in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War’.

POETRY

Major Jackson, ‘Restrictive Covenant’ from Urban Renewal
Nicole Sealey, ‘Pages 30-34, an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure’
Dante Micheaux, ‘Audition’; ‘Eclogue’; from ‘Pelham’; from ‘Siege of the Great Plantation’
Rita Dove, ‘News Cycle’
Ishion Hutchinson, ‘Centurion’

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