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Item Emerson, Saint-John Perse, et la poétique moderniste(2022-06-01) Patterson, AnitaItem Unfelt: the language of affect in the British enlightenment(Duke University Press, 2021-12-01) Prince, Michael B.Item “I've known rivers”: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, and the emergence of Caribbean modernism(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021-03-01) Patterson, AnitaCentering the analysis on three poems by Jacques Roumain—including two published in Haiti-Journal in 1931, the same year Roumain first met Langston Hughes, “Quand bat le tam-tam,” which Hughes himself would eventually translate, and “Langston Hughes”—this article traces the chronology of encounters between Hughes and Roumain, calling attention to their shared affinities with poets such as Walt Whitman and Jules Laforgue, in order to explore the dynamics of influence between Hughes and Roumain, and to deepen our understanding of Hughes's contribution to the emergence of Caribbean modernism. Drawing on groundbreaking scholarship by Brent Hayes Edwards, Carolyn Fowler, Arnold Rampersad, J. Michael Dash, Michel Fabre, Madhuri Deshmukh, Henry Louis Gates, Homi Bhabha, Seth Moglen, and others, the author argues against a conceptualization of influence as mimicry, opening possibilities for research on Hughes's placement within the global cross-currents of high modernist and avant-garde influence in the New World.Item "'Projections in the Haiku Manner': Richard Wright, T. S. Eliot, and Transpacific Modernism"(Clemson University Press, 2021-09-01) Patterson, AnitaItem Emerson, Buddhism, and modernist poetics(Purdue University, 2021-12-31) Patterson, AnitaItem Modern poetry and haiku(Cambridge University Press, 2021-07-08) Patterson, Anita; Nowlin, MichaelWright wrote and published poetry throughout his career, culminating in the remarkable collection of “projections in the haiku manner” which he composed in the last years of his life. This analysis contextualizes Wright’s late turn to haiku in relation to his larger body of work; his reading of scholarship on haiku and Japanese Buddhism; his involvement with the Partisan Review during the 1930s; his revisionary engagement with modernist poetry, including Ezra Pound’s haiku-inspired imagism as well as T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land; and his affirmation of Emersonian pragmatism. I conclude by exploring the transmission of Wright’s legacy to contemporary African American poets such as Sonia Sanchez, whose liberating experiments with haiku have resulted in new expressive possibilities.Item Introduction: what was Black Studies?(Informa UK Limited, 2020-07-02) Chude-Sokei, LouisItem Reading women in the medieval information age: the life of Elizabeth of Spalbeek and the book of Margery Kempe(Project Muse, 2020) Appleford, Amy; Saunders, CorinneIn fifteenth-century England, information about the natural and supernatural worlds came to be broadly distributed in texts that circulated well beyond the institutional contexts in which this knowledge was first produced. Vernacular texts that deal with natural philosophy, medicine, and science, alongside a range of religious topics, were created in record numbers for a widening audience. Many of these testify to intensified interest in all aspects of the human body. Religious works written by, about, and for women participate in this ferment of ideas and information, crossing the boundaries between secular and transcendent themes and concerns. Because religious women were understood to have a special relationship to forms of physical piety, their vitae served as important vehicles for the production and dissemination of thinking about corporeality. The radical asceticism of the thirteenth-century Low Countries visionary Elizabeth of Spalbeek, as detailed in an important Middle English collection from the 1420s, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114, can be read as an investigation of the possibilities of the fleshly, this-worldly human body to materialize divine truth, and thus by extension as participating in local and intimate ways in the distribution and deinstitutionalization of knowledge. The Book of Margery Kempe, a work often seen as taking up the conventions of affective piety, [End Page 253] similarly participates in a current discourse concerning the materiality of the divine. As the work's complex treatment of the spirit as breath, fire, inspiration, or pneuma suggests, the Book is at once a contributor to and a product of the late medieval information era.Item Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, Aimé Césaire et Saint-John Perse: revisiter l’emergence du modernisme caribéen et de la Négritude(Centre Littéraire d'Impression Provençal, 2020-06-01) Patterson, AnitaItem Emerson in Iran: the American Appropriation of Persian Poetry, by Roger Sedarat(2020) Patterson, AnitaItem “Globalism, transparency, comprehensiveness”(Palgrave/McMillan, 2021-03-10) Lee, MauriceItem "The Office of Literature"(Northeast Modern Language Association, 2021-07-01) Lee, MauriceItem Machines and the ethics of miscegenation(2019-10-01) Chude-Sokei, LouisItem Teaching "problematic" Yeats: relevance without recuperation(2020) Preston, CarrieItem "Careful Candors": Gwendolyn Brooks, T. S. Eliot, and the Poetics of Social Critique(Routledge, 2019) Patterson, Anita; Hakutani, YoshinobuItem Prognosticating echoes: Race, sound and naturalizing technology(Columbia University, 2017) Chude-Sokei, LouisItem “Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber: reggae, technology and the diaspora process,” reprint.(2018-09-12) Chude-Sokei, LouisReprint of an essay first published in 1997.Item Eliot, Emerson, and transpacific modernism(Universitätsverlag WINTER, 2018-12-23) Patterson, Anita; Brasch, Ilka; Mayer, RuthItem Hissing, bidding, and lynching: participation in Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon and the Melodramatics of American Racism(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2018-11-15) Preston, C. J.Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2016 An Octoroon encouraged Boston theatregoers to hiss and cheer like the audiences for Boucicault’s 1859 The Octoroon, then encouraged them to bid for slaves and scream for a lynching. For some, participation may have encouraged a self-satisfied post-racial bliss; for others, it may have bolstered psychic investments in racism and misogyny. Many, however, were confused: What is an appropriate response to the melodramatic extremes of American race relations?Item Wilson Harris: an ontological promiscuity(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-08-06) Chude-Sokei, Louis[Excerpt] "I’ve always thought that the problem with the literary and cultural politics of the Anglophone world was that we’ve never had an actual, formal surrealist movement. Yes, there are writers and thinkers in the English-speaking world that are verifiably surreal (though not members of the official movement) and many that are described as surrealist, for example the writer who is the focus of this essay, the recently deceased Guyanese novelist, critic, and visionary, Wilson Harris, who passed away in March of this year. And yes, the impact of the Surrealist International was global. As I will discuss, it had a significant impact in the Caribbean, which is partly what justifies discussing Wilson Harris in this context. Though seen as a minor or cult figure, or an example of “art brut,” I’d like to help make clear his standing in a richer tradition of thinking and writing than previously acknowledged. I’d like to also suggest ways that his legacy can and should make a difference."