https://hcommons.org/members/mparham/activity/ Activity feed for Marisa Parham. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:47:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a0b548829f24a018bd9cf0b9762fe68a https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1794747/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:40:07 -0400 0 27238596296696a82270707b78f66373 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750664/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 02:05:30 -0400 0 315507575ea8462abc6a6933ea0835f9 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657607/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:37:16 -0400 This essay begins with my attempt to close-read a text by a recently departed colleague, Jeffrey B. Ferguson, but turns into an exploration of writing across registers, in this case the delivery of a very different version of the same paper by Ferguson, one that is far more intimate, insightful, and moving.

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]]> 0 3ec742b04c1c309befc9b7c8e3763cc7 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657605/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:31:38 -0400 Two-thirds of the way through Faulkner, Mississippi, his extended meditation on the prose oeuvre of the American writer William Faulkner, Édouard Glissant remarks on Faulkner’s famous ‘amused refusal to “correct the contradictions”’ introduced into his texts through his constant revisiting of characters across novels not necessarily set in proper…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e114371925798e31fdd704fb83bf761a https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641728/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:32:29 -0400 In its encounter with James Baldwin across form— "Letter to my nephew," "Sonny's Blues," and archival footage of Baldwin being interviewed by the psychologist Kenneth Clark— this article offers an exploration of how Baldwin's figuration of children and his own acts of care illuminate the political possibilities of both filiation and aff…[Read more]

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]]> 0 497a5912d307e9fdd3b06465d0e55d22 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641716/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:27:53 -0400 This essay explores how Pierre Nora's sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as "a memory that ultimately rewrites history." I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Countee Cullen's "Heritage," one of which reveals a…[Read more]

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]]> 0 ac824c1beb726d5e52fba5ac5b5b92fc https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641075/ Tue, 28 May 2019 16:31:46 -0400 This essay brings together two texts, a letter to the editor written in experimental prose by the Black avant-garde Beat poet, Bob Kaufman, and “The Unlocking,” a spoken-word poem written and performed by Ursula Rucker that appears at the end of The Roots’ critically acclaimed rap album, Do You Want More??!?. By using the aural to disrupt expec…[Read more]

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]]> 0 d780b6eede95aa0d65d3b9a5c1526fc1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640997/ Mon, 27 May 2019 16:40:26 -0400 This essay brings together two texts, a letter to the editor written by the Black avant-garde Beat poet, Bob Kaufman, and “The Unlocking,” a poem written and performed by Ursula Rucker. By using the aural to disrupt expectations set up for us by the visual, each text shatters the visual, and reveals something important about the kinds of sil…[Read more]

]]> 0 047b6f921bca08d2f8555b5c7103224f https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640890/ Sat, 25 May 2019 16:25:31 -0400 Developing less burdensome and more equitable ways to support scholarly difference is a preeminent challenge when thinking about the future of assessment and promotion in higher education. At stake in this is the very capacity of institutions to do the work of scholarly inclusion, to recognize the range of approaches well captured in the digital…[Read more]

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]]> 0 a6917ef73d0276795c07e0684f16b131 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640727/ Wed, 22 May 2019 16:28:16 -0400 The problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]

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]]> 0 a129ec211a3b73a39503f333ba5f6678 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640685/ Wed, 22 May 2019 01:42:08 -0400 The problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]

]]> 0 86af61e1bc0824d8110302e4f8a8cc03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640368/ Fri, 17 May 2019 00:57:41 -0400 0 f9fe7ff6d79a8104c1337cd343864041 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640317/ Thu, 16 May 2019 17:24:37 -0400 0 d18939cc380586e2a60cae557374b306 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640306/ Thu, 16 May 2019 15:31:03 -0400 This essay explores how Pierre Nora's sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as "a memory that ultimately rewrites history." I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Countee Cullen's "Heritage," one of which reveals a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0e329836eeeb3382837be8f3b2cd63a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640295/ Thu, 16 May 2019 13:56:45 -0400 In its encounter with James Baldwin across form— "Letter to my nephew," "Sonny's Blues," and archival footage of Baldwin being interviewed by the psychologist Kenneth Clark— this article offers an exploration of how Baldwin's figuration of children and his own acts of care illuminate the political possibilities of both filiation and aff…[Read more]

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