Blar i forfatter Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning "Parks, Justin"

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    • "Race and National Identity in Modernist Anthropology and Jean Toomer's 'The Blue Meridian'" 

      Parks, Justin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Jean Toomer’s seldom-discussed long poem “The Blue Meridian,” which he drafted over a long period beginning in the early 1920s, proposes an amalgamation of race and national belonging in the new type of the “American.” Seeing himself as a precursor to this new hybrid, Toomer often polemicized against the limiting logic of race. In proposing such an understanding of race in relation to nation, Toomer ...

    • Toward a resource poetics in Muriel Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead and Mark Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary 

      Parks, Justin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-05)
      Muriel Rukeyser’s 1936 documentary poem <i>The Book of the Dead</i> appropriates various forms of textual evidence to document a devastating mining disaster that occurred in 1930 in rural Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. Written in the aftermath of the post-2008 financial crisis, Mark Nowak’s 2009 text <i>Coal Mountain Elementary</i> revisits the same landscape Rukeyser had sought out seventy years ...