Michelle Ann Stephens's Books

Skin Acts

Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skin Acts

Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin. She situates each figure within his cultural moment, examining his performance in the context of contemporary race relations and visual regimes. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and performance theory, Stephens contends that while black skin is subject to what Frantz Fanon called the epidermalizing and hardening effects of the gaze, it is in the flesh that other—intersubjective, pre-discursive, and sensuous—forms of knowing take place between artist and audience. Analyzing a wide range of visual, musical, and textual sources, Stephens shows that black subjectivity and performativity are structured by the tension between skin and flesh, sight and touch, difference and sameness.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

323

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822376652

ISBN 13

9780822376651

Black Empire

The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Empire

The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows how these thinkers developed ideas of a worldwide racial movement and federated global black political community that transcended the boundaries of nation-states. Stephens highlights key geopolitical and historical events that gave rise to these writers’ intellectual investment in new modes of black political self-determination. She describes their engagement with the fate of African Americans within the burgeoning U.S. empire, their disillusionment with the potential of post–World War I international organizations such as the League of Nations to acknowledge, let alone improve, the material conditions of people of color around the world, and the inspiration they took from the Bolshevik Revolution, which offered models of revolution and community not based on nationality. Stephens argues that the global black political consciousness she identifies was constituted by both radical and reactionary impulses. On the one hand, Garvey, McKay, and James saw freedom of movement as the basis of black transnationalism. The Caribbean archipelago—a geographic space ideally suited to the free movement of black subjects across national boundaries—became the metaphoric heart of their vision. On the other hand, these three writers were deeply influenced by the ideas of militarism, empire, and male sovereignty that shaped global political discourse in the early twentieth century. As such, their vision of transnational blackness excluded women’s political subjectivities. Drawing together insights from American, African American, Caribbean, and gender studies, Black Empire is a major contribution to ongoing conversations about nation and diaspora.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

382

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822386895

ISBN 13

9780822386896

Skin Acts

Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skin Acts

Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

323

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822376652

ISBN 13

9780822376651

Transoceanic America

Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific

By: Michelle Burnham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transoceanic America

Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific

By: Michelle Burnham

Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime travel writing, mathematical and navigational schoolbooks, and the relatively new genre of the novel. Especially during the age of revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, long-distance transoceanic travel required calculating and managing risk in the interest of profit. The result was the emergence of a newly suspenseful form of narrative that came to characterize capitalist investment, political revolution, and novelistic plot. The calculus of risk that drove this expectationist narrative also concealed violence against vulnerable bodies on ships and shorelines around the world. A transoceanic American literary and cultural history requires new non-linear narratives to tell the story of this global context and to recognize its often forgotten textual archive.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

446

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

019257759X

ISBN 13

9780192577597

Black Empire

The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Empire

The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962

By: Michelle Ann Stephens

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

382

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822386895

ISBN 13

9780822386896

The New Beauty

An East-West Guide to the Natural Beauty of Body and Soul

By: Michelle D. Leigh

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The New Beauty

An East-West Guide to the Natural Beauty of Body and Soul

By: Michelle D. Leigh

Drawing on the botanical wisdom and beauty secrets of both East and West, this book offers a simple, modern way of beauty for men and women that uses flowers, fruits, nuts and leaves. A wealth of foods, teas, baths, lotions, beauty rituals and elixirs are suggested for a variety of problems.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

NewLeaf

Published Date

ISBN 10

0752205161

ISBN 13

9780752205168

Los Angeles Jobbank (16th Ed.)

By: Michelle Roy Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Los Angeles Jobbank (16th Ed.)

By: Michelle Roy Kelly

-- Full company name, address, and phone number-- Contacts for professional hiring-- Description of company's products or services-- Listings of professional positions commonly filled-- Educational backgrounds sought-- Fringe benefits-- Internships offered-- And more!Each JobBank also includes: -- Sections on job search techniques-- Information on executive search firms and placement agencies-- Web sites for job hunters-- Professional associations-- And more!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

580

Publisher

Adams Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1580623816

ISBN 13

9781580623810

Book's by Michelle Ann Stephens

Skin Acts

Skin Acts

Black Empire

Black Empire

Skin Acts

Skin Acts

Transoceanic America

Transoceanic America

Black Empire

Black Empire

The New Beauty

The New Beauty

Los Angeles Jobbank (16th Ed.)

Los Angeles Jobbank (16th Ed.)

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email