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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.
An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects; Ad Quadratum: The Practical Application of Geometry in Medieval Architecture; AIA Guide to New York City; American Architects Directory; Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests; The Architect and His Office ...
The subtitle, "Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity" nods to Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America. [3] The work pays homage to not just Saidiya, and not just Hortense, in fact not any singular "I" understood within a Cartesian " Cogito ergo sum " that would subordinate the ...
The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging authors. [ 1 ] The following are a few of the individuals who contributed to the list.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the title of a book by the American architect Robert Venturi.It was first published in 1966 by Museum of Modern Art in New York City and has since been translated into 16 languages, and is considered one of the most important works of architectural literature.
Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architectural history; John Summerson (1904–1992), author of The Classical Language of Architecture and Architecture in Britain: 1530–1830; Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980), Bangladeshi historian of art and architecture; John Harvey (1911–1997), English Gothic architecture and architects
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
Hortense J. Spillers (born 1942) is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University.A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature, collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 ...