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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.
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 ...
Works of autotheory involve a first-person account of an author’s life blended with research investigations. Works of autotheory might bring in broader questions in philosophy , literary theory , social structures , science and culture to interpret the politics and history within personal experiences.
As Saidiya Hartman states, "As Missouri v. Celia demonstrated, the enslaved could neither give nor refuse consent, nor offer reasonable resistance, yet they were criminally responsible and liable. The slave was recognized as a reasoning subject, who possessed intent and rationality, solely in the context of criminal liability."
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 ...
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [6] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [7] Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [8] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 ...
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
Its namesake recognition, the Narrative Prize, [4] is a single $5,000 prize awarded annually to a new or emerging writer published in Narrative. Narrative Prize winners include: —Sarah Balakrishnan (2022) —Morgan Talty (2021) —Tryphena L Yeboah (2021) —Gbenga Adesina (2020) —Brenden Willey (2019) —Paisley Rekdal (2018)