On Reading Dialect in Harper’s ‘Iola Leroy’

Posted in Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2022-02-20 04:01Z by Steven

On Reading Dialect in Harper’s ‘Iola Leroy’

The Dickens Project
2021-12-08

A roundtable conversation with Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Eric Gardner (Saginaw Valley State University), Jennifer James (George Washington University), Derrick R. Spires (Cornell University), and Richard Yarborough (University of California, Los Angeles).

We staged this conversation with expert scholars in nineteenth-century African American literary studies in order to give viewers a glimpse into the ongoing conversations about Black dialect in US literature, African American literature, and [Frances E. W.] Harper’s novel. This glimpse appears in the form of a roundtable discussion with teacher-scholars who have written about Harper, taught her work, and engaged deeply in conversations on this complex topic with students, colleagues, and the broader public.

Watch the discussion (01:06:07) here.

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Poland’s multicultural music landscape: from Afro-Polish folk to Polish jazz from Peru

Posted in Anthropology, Articles, Arts, Asian Diaspora, Europe, Media Archive on 2022-02-20 03:42Z by Steven

Poland’s multicultural music landscape: from Afro-Polish folk to Polish jazz from Peru

Notes From Poland
2022-02-17

Zula Rabikowska

Poland is often depicted as an ethnically homogeneous country, and in some senses it is. Contemporary Polish identity, however, is more complex and diverse than is often represented in the media, and the markers of Polishness are changing.

Historically, Poland was a multicultural country, with a third of its population composed of minorities. That rich legacy is still reflected in contemporary culture, from food to literature and art.

Though the death, destruction and displacement of World War Two ended that ethnic diversity, the postwar era was marked by migrations from fellow communist countries, in particular Vietnam. And in recent years, Poland has recorded one of Europe’s highest rates of immigration…

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Beyonce and Zendaya in talks to team up to remake the 1959 film Imitation Of Life – with superstar singer as producer

Posted in Articles, Arts, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2022-02-20 03:27Z by Steven

Beyonce and Zendaya in talks to team up to remake the 1959 film Imitation Of Life – with superstar singer as producer

The Sun
London, United Kingdom
2022-02-17

Simon Boyle, Executive Showbiz Editor

THEY are two of the most in-demand people in showbiz and Beyonce and Zendaya are now in talks to team up.

I hear both have had early discussions about creating a remake of movie classic Imitation Of Life.

The groundbreaking 1934 film, remade in 1959 starring Lana Turner, grapples with questions of race, class and gender as an aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter longs to pass as white…

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