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Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) is an American academic and writer focusing on African-American studies. She is currently a professor at Columbia University in their English department. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her work focuses on African-American literature , cultural history, photography and ethics, and the intersections of law and literature.
First edition (publ. Duke University Press Books) Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity is a 2017 book of prose and poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. [1] It is a labor of love, and an experimental and poetic work of literary criticism based on the work of Hortense Spillers and the literary archive of freedom-seeking black women. [2]
The main text of Jeffers' book is a collection of poetry that rereads and rewrites Wheatley's life, combining creative fiction with historical research (or "critical fabulation", in the words of Saidiya Hartman). For instance, Wheatley was known to have written a second volume of poems, which was never published; Jeffers came across a letter ...
Fournier describes autotheory as a site of resistance, where feminist writers, artists, and scholars brought political questions to bear in their own lives, in contrast to the situated distance between the writer and their subject matter or absence of the writer in their work that is prominent in academic research across disciplines. [3]
Becky Albertalli (2004) – writer, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and other best-selling works; Steve Almond (1988) – writer, The Best American Short Stories 2010; Stephen Alter – author; Suzanne Berne – novelist, winner of Great Britain's prestigious Orange Prize; professor of English; Kate Bernheimer – author, scholar, editor
Documentarian Laura Poitras, musician Brian Eno, artists Barbara Kruger and Nicole Eisenman, philosopher Judith Butler, academic Saidiya Hartman, and photographer Nan Goldin signed the original letter and called for a boycott of Artforum in response to Velasco being fired. They praised his leadership increasing the magazine's prominence and ...
Simone Leigh's work and practice is the subject of a 2023 monograph, edited by Eva Respini. The monograph includes essays and reflections on Leigh's work from a number of Black scholars, including from Hortense Spillers, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Dionne Brand, among others. [47] [48]
Saidiya Hartman cites Venture Smith's narrative in her book, "Lose Your Mother." She uses Smith's account to illustrate how rare it is for anyone to describe "the castle" at Anomabo where Smith was held until, he writes, "I and other prisoners were put on board a canoe, under our master, and rowed away to a vessel belonging to Rhode-Island ...