Orals List #3: Queer Black Form
Hi all! I have finally gotten my last orals list together! here it is!
Queer Theory
Holland, Sharon. The Erotic Life of Racism
José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics (1999)
Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004)
Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004)
Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)
Juana Maria Rodriquez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (2014)
Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia
Kara Keeling. Queer Times, Black Futures
Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha. Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Black Studies/Theory/Poetic Criticism
Patricia Williams. Diary of a Law Professor
Fred Moten. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Fred Moten. Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study
Dionne Brand. A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
Weheliye, Habius Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Kearney, Douglass. Mess and Mess and Mess
Alexander, Will. Magnetic Hoof Beat
Holloway, Karla. Legal Fiction: Constituting Race, Composing Literature
Paul Gilroy,The Black Atlantic,
Evie Shockley. Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
Jennifer Devere Brody. Punctuation
Brown, Vincent.The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary.
Édouard Glissant. Poetics of Relation.
Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination.
Natasha Tretheway. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Athens:
Harvey Young. Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body.
Kevin Young. The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness.
Christina Sharpe.. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post Slavery Subjects
20.Alexis Pauline Gumba. Spill, Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Ramazani, A Transnational Poetics
Stephen Best. None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging ,Aesthetic Life
Anthony Reed , Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing
Katherine McKittrick. . Demonic Grounds: Black Women and Cartographies of Struggle
Katherine McKittrick, Sylvia Winter: On Being Human as Praxis
Meta DuEwa Jones,The Muse is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word
June Jordan. Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
John McWhorter Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
Reginald Dwayne Betts, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Harryette Mullen, The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be.
Visual Culture
Huey Copeland. Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America.
Darby English. How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.
Kara Walker, My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Richard. Powell. Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture.
Thompson. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy.
Poetry
Hayes, Terrance. To Float in the Space Between
Hayes, Terrance. How to Be Drawn
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric
Parker, Morgan. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce.
Tretheway, Natasha. Native Guard.
Brown, Jericho. Tradition.
Smith, Denez. Don’t Call Us Dead
Moten, Fred. The Feel Trio
Finney, Nicky. Head Off and Split
Mackay, Nathaniel. Splay Anthem.
Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats
Kearney, Douglass. Buck Studies
White, Simone. Of Being Dispersed
Rita Dove. Sonata Mulattica: Poems.
June Jordan. Directed by Desire.
Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise.
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
Essays (24)
Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
Elizabeth Alexander “Meditations on Mecca: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Responsibilities of the Black Poet
Ntozake Shange, “taking a solo/a poetic possibility/a poetic imperative”
Cherise Pollard, “Sexual Subversions, Political Inversions: Women’s Poetry and the Politics of the Black Arts Movement.”
Stephen Henderson, “Saturation: A Progress Report on a Theory of Black Poetry”
Rowan Ricardo Phipps, “Blue Century: Brief Notes on 20th Century African American Poetry.”
Aldon Nielson, “Other Planes of There”
Jonathan Shandell, “How Black Do you Want It? Countee Cullen and the Contest for Racial Authenticity on Page and Stage”
Lee Bernstein, “Prison Writers and the Black Arts Movement”
Michelle Joan Wilkerson, “To Make a Poet Black: Canonizing Puerto Rican Poets in the Black Arts Movement”
Evie Shockley, “All of the Above: Multiple Choice and African American Poetry”
Lorenzo Thomas. “Authenticity and Elevation: Sterling Brown’s Theory of the Blues”
Erica Hunt, “On An Oppositional Poetics”
Herman Beavers, “The Archival Impulse in African American Poetry: Playing in the Past”
Kimberly Benston, “Performing Blackness Re/Placing Afro-American Poetry,”
Saunders, Patricia J. 2008. “Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip.” Small Axe 12, no. 2: 63–79.
McKittrick, Katherine. 2014. “Mathematics Black Life.” Black Scholar 44, no. 2: 16–28.
________. 2013. “Plantation Futures.” Small Axe, no. 17: 1–15.
Morrison, Toni. 1998. “Home.” In The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today, edited by Wahneema Lubiano, 3–12. New York: Vintage.”
Gordon, Lewis. 2007. “Through the Hellish Zone of Nonbeing: Thinking through Fanon, Disaster, and the Damned of the Earth.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge 5, no. 3: 5–12.”
Glissant, Édouard, and Manthia Diawara. 2011. “One World in Relation: Édouard Glissant in Conversation with Manthia Diawara.” Nka, Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 28: 4–19