Monday, March 11, 2024

The Coverage of Percival Everett's James



2024
• March 18: Huck’s Jim Gets a Chance to Speak for Himself In James - Geoffrey Himes - Paste
• March 18: James - Sarah McCraw Crow - BookPage
• March 14: Percival Everett's James gives Huck Finn's Jim full personhood - Walton Muyumba - Boston Globe
• March 14: What’s behind the wave of literary retellings? - The Economist 
• March 13: James’ Review: Percival Everett’s Retelling of Twain - Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal
• March 12: A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn - Tyler Austin Harper - The Atlantic
• March 12: Under the Surface - Laura Miller - Slate
• March 12: Jim gets his say in Percival Everett’s retelling of Twain classic - Leah Tyler - Atlanta Journal Constitution
• March 11: Percival Everett Is Messing With You - Gene Seymour - New Republic 
• March 11: Percival Everett Can't Say What His Novels Mean - Maya Binyam - New Yorker
• March 11: ‘Huck Finn’ Is a Masterpiece. This Retelling Just Might Be, Too - Dwight Garner - New York Times
• March 4: Everett’s ‘James’ retells Huck Finn through Jim’s eyes - Colette Bancroft - Tampa Bay Times
• January 1: James - Lesley Williams - Booklist

2023 
• December 16: James - Kirkus Reviews
November 20: James - Publishers Weekly

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Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Internal Dialogue of Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto

A short take on the inner musings of characters from Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (2023). 

This episode was co-written by Nicole Dixon, Rie’Onna Holmon, Jalen White, and Howard Rambsy. The episode was read by Kassandra Timm. 


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The Internal Dialogue of Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle

A short take on the inner musings of characters from Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle (2021). 

This episode was co-written by Nicole Dixon, Rie’Onna Holmon, Jalen White, and Howard Rambsy. The episode was read by Kassandra Timm. 

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Entries for Multi-threaded Literary Briefs


Here's a roundup of the entries for our Multi-threaded Literary Briefs project. 

Multithreaded Literary Briefs 
Key scenes
Keywords
Novel adaptations
• Book & Literary History
• Literary Data Work
• Style & Structure
• Lists
• Reading & Teaching Fiction
• Afrofuturism
• Teaching Morrison Beyond Fiction
• Award-winning Fiction
• A Checklist of Octavia Butler's books
• A Checklist of Marc Olden's books
• Reading The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• The Epistolary Structure of The Color Purple
• A Checklist of Neo-Slave Narratives
• The Literary Data Gallery
• A Brief History on How Pauline Hopkins  v  Published 3 Novels in 3 Years
• A Checklist of Toni Morrison's works
• A Checklist of Colson Whitehead’s works
• 25 Novels Adapted to films and miniseries
• Pauline Hopkins and a Legacy of Fiction Publishing
• The Processes of Literary Data Work
• Antebellum Slave Narrative
• Barbara Christian, Black women novelists, and Berkeley
• Multigenerational Novels
• Multiperspective Novels
• Neo-Slave Narrative
• Contemporary Narratives of Slavery
• Racial Passing
• The Flying African
• Trope of the Tragic Mulatta
• The question white folks could not stop asking Toni Morrison
• Historical Fiction
• The Battle Royal scene from Invisible Man 

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Eugene B. Redmond and Black Arts era poets

Eugene B. Redmond and Jayne Cortez, October 2005, SIUE


Someone was recently asking me about the state of African American literary studies at SIUE when I began in 2003. Of course, I thought about my work with Eugene B. Redmond -- the main reason I came to this university.

He wrote Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry (1976), and I wanted the chance to work with him. So I applied. The rest is history as they say. 

Redmond retired in 2007. Before that, he and I coordinated several readings featuring poets associated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Quincy Troupe. Sonia Sanchez. Amiri Baraka. Jayne Cortez. Haki Madhubuti. Mari Evans. [Related: 10 Years of Poets Reading at SIUE].

In retrospect, Redmond was moving toward retirement when I began, and those readings showcasing Black Arts era poets may have been a way of winding down his career. The poets were his old friends stopping by to reconnect.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Black Women Writers, 1970 - 1995

A short take on the importance of 1970 - 1995, in the history of Black women's writing.


   

Script by Howard Rambsy II 
Narration by Kassandra Timm 
Whiteboard animation by Sierra Taylor

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