Christopher Freeburg: 3 books
by Christopher Freeburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Christopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence,...
Melville and the Idea of Blackness
Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness...
by Jack Halberstam, Imani Perry, Christopher Freeburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...