By Howard Rambsy II
My long-term teacher Jerry W. Ward, Jr., has been producing blog entries over at the History of Black Writing (HBW) site since spring of 2011. I've enjoyed reading the works and decided to produce this "notebook" on his entries. In a fairly short amount of time, he has covered a broad range of topics and writers.
Ward is one of the relatively few senior African American literary scholars in the field who regularly produces blog entries. He has been a crucial contributor for HBW's site, and at the same time, the site has served as a key platform for his short writings.
Entries
2012
• October 29: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Bad Blood
• October 26: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Souls of White Folk
• October 19: Our Poets are Our Dangerous Friends
• October 15: Rowan Ricardo Phillips: The Revenge of Unfinished Modernism
• October 10: Ishmael Reed and the American War of Words
• October 10: On Richard Rorty’s Shadow of Pragmatic Hope
• October 4: Natasha Trethewey and the Eyes of Historical/Poetic Consciousness
• September 25: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. and Custodial Clowns
• September 24: On Being Cool: A Cold Announcement
• September 19: Toi Derricotte’s Open Confession
• September 19: Witherspoon: A Novel by Lance Jeffers (1983)
• September 17: Gil Scott-Heron and a Hint-filled Detail
• September 17: The Ethnic Ethical Turn
• September 10: Black Literature and the Democratic Spirit
• August 29: A Poetic Journey
• August 27: Are We Losing Our Humanity, Part 2.2
• August 20: Are We Losing Our Humanity?, Part 2.1
• August 14: Are We Losing Our Humanity?: Part 1
• August 9: To Hide And Hide Not
• August 4: Satanic Prostitutes/Poetry/Demonic Pimps
• July 30: The Shaping of Americans
• July 25: Lectures in China
• April 4: April poetry blog for HBW
• January 17: Aesthetic/Aesthetics/The (…..) Aesthetic: A Note for Emerging Scholars and Critics
2011
• November 25: Nikky Finney's Heartwood
• September 27: On Digital Scholarship...Blogging and other Technologies
• September 13: Playing in the Sunlight: Colors of Imagination, or Toni Morrison Revisited
• July 18: Ishmael Reed and Multiculturism
• July 12: Notes on John Edgar Wideman's Fanon
• July 7: Digging Amiri Baraka
• June 15: Provocative Fictions
• June 9: Death and Life of Gil Scott-Heron
• May 18: Entering Another World
• May 11: Of Literature and Humanity
• May 4: Tradition and Acknowledgement in Combat Zones
• April 11: National Poetry Month observations
• March 30: "'Thank-You' Note to American Presidents"
• March 23: Comments on James Baldwin’s The Cross of Redemption
• March 23: Richard Wright and Philosophy
• March 16: One Function of Speculation in African American Literary History
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