Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A Notebook on the Blog Entries of Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

By Howard Rambsy II

My long-term teacher Jerry W. Ward, Jr., has been producing blog entries over at the History of Black Writing (HBW) site since spring of 2011. I've enjoyed reading the works and decided to produce this "notebook" on his entries. In a fairly short amount of time, he has covered a broad range of topics and writers.

Ward is one of the relatively few senior African American literary scholars in the field who regularly produces blog entries. He has been a crucial contributor for HBW's site, and at the same time, the site has served as a key platform for his writings.     

Entries
2014
• January 31: International Exchanges  
• January 11: Remembering Alvin Aubert and Amiri Baraka

2013
• December 13: The Gifts of Black Prisoners
• December 10: Mirror of Violence: Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign
• December 2: Amoebic Motion in Literature and Culture
• November 14: Gordon Parks: Photography and Intervention
• November 7: A Footnote for A Work-in-Progress
• October 31: Rita Dove, Edwidge Danticat, and the New York Times
• October 28: History Redux 2013: Umbra and FST 
• October 21: Unghosting African American Literature
• October 18: Centennial 2014
• October 10: Angela Jackson: The Novel as Luminous Web
• October 8: LeRoi Jones/ 1963
• October 7: Future Revolution in Critical Talk
• October 2: Albert Murray: The Temperature of Death
• September 26: A Novel Ahead of Time
• September 13: On Edwidge Danticat
• September 11: A Letter to Kalamu Ya Salaam
• April 8: Black Writing, Culture and Memory
• April 4: Poetry in 1988: A Research Note
• April 1: Poetry in First World: An April Meditation 
• March 21: Black Drama and the Alarm Clock 
• March 19: Transformation of Black Fiction into Film
• March 18: Houston A. Baker, Jr.’s Critical Memory  
• February 13: Wesley Brown Revisited
• February 8: Incriminating Evidence and Interpretation  
• January 29: A Blues Moment in Dusk of Dawn: A Note on Autobiography
• January 28: A Poetry for Ordinary Use
• January 28: Inaugural Poems: Touching Bones of Consciousness
• January 17: Against Academic Tyranny 
• January 17: Reading Sterling D. Plumpp
• January 10: Rereading Henry Van Dyke (3 October 1928--22 December 2011)
• January 9: Condemnation & Redemption: The Works of Donald Goines 
• January 7: America’s Soul Unchained

2012
• December 17: The Death of African American Literature   
• November 26: The Excellent Absurdity of Legitimate Rape: A Note on Art and History 
• November 20: The White Minstrelsy of American Politics 
• November 19: Eugene B. Redmond and Cultural Documentation 
• November 9: Philosophy and Politics 
• November 8: Lance Jeffers (1919-1985): Writing Toward Balance  
• November 7: Thomas Sowell’s Post-Intellectual Novel 
• November 6: A Lament for Ralph Ellison
• October 29: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Bad Blood
• October 26: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Souls of White Folk
• October 19: Our Poets are Our Dangerous Friends
• October 15: Rowan Ricardo Phillips: The Revenge of Unfinished Modernism
• October 10: Ishmael Reed and the American War of Words
• October 10: On Richard Rorty’s Shadow of Pragmatic Hope
• October 4: Natasha Trethewey and the Eyes of Historical/Poetic Consciousness
• September 25: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. and Custodial Clowns
• September 24: On Being Cool: A Cold Announcement
• September 19: Toi Derricotte’s Open Confession
• September 19: Witherspoon: A Novel by Lance Jeffers (1983)
• September 17: Gil Scott-Heron and a Hint-filled Detail
• September 17: The Ethnic Ethical Turn
• September 10: Black Literature and the Democratic Spirit
• August 29: A Poetic Journey 
• August 27: Are We Losing Our Humanity, Part 2.2
• August 20: Are We Losing Our Humanity?, Part 2.1
• August 14: Are We Losing Our Humanity?: Part 1
• August 9: To Hide And Hide Not
• August 4: Satanic Prostitutes/Poetry/Demonic Pimps
• July 30: The Shaping of Americans
• July 25: Lectures in China
• April 4: April poetry blog for HBW
• January 17: Aesthetic/Aesthetics/The (…..) Aesthetic: A Note for Emerging Scholars and Critics

2011
• November 25: Nikky Finney's Heartwood
• September 27:  On Digital Scholarship...Blogging and other Technologies
• September 13: Playing in the Sunlight: Colors of Imagination, or Toni Morrison Revisited
• July 18: Ishmael Reed and Multiculturism
• July 12: Notes on John Edgar Wideman's Fanon
• July 7: Digging Amiri Baraka
• June 15: Provocative Fictions
• June 9: Death and Life of Gil Scott-Heron
• May 18: Entering Another World
• May 11: Of Literature and Humanity
• May 4: Tradition and Acknowledgement in Combat Zones
• April 11: National Poetry Month observations
• March 30: "'Thank-You' Note to American Presidents"
• March 23: Comments on James Baldwin’s The Cross of Redemption
• March 23: Richard Wright and Philosophy
• March 16: One Function of Speculation in African American Literary History

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