{"id":495,"date":"2012-12-19T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:54:19","slug":"495-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=495","title":{"rendered":"A selection of older print and digital scholarly work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>A selection of my print and digital scholarly work is listed below. \u00a0For selected less formally &#8220;academic&#8221; online-only essays from the 1990s to the 2000s, see the Online Essays menu. \u00a0See also my blog\u2019s &#8220;recent posts\u201d and \u201carchives.&#8221; \u00a0 Thanks for your interest! \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u2014PS<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=487\">Review-essay<\/a>\u00a0of William Carlos Williams\u2019\u00a0<em>By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959<\/em>, edited by Jonathan Cohen (NY: New Directions, 2011). \u00a0 This is a slightly longer version of my essay, with more analysis on 1) the role of little magazines in the modernist movement, and 2) how this volume should deepen our understanding of the importance of Latin American poetry in Spanish to the development of U.S. English-language poetry in the 20th century. \u00a0 The slightly shorter print version of the essay may be found in The William Carlos Williams Review, Spring 2013. \u00a0 Thanks to Ian Copestake for his editing work and for permission to publish the longer version here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/Humanities\/pschmid1\/scholarship.html\">Peter Schmidt\u2019s Books and Selected Articles (Print Scholarship)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/169410\">Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Literature<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(an e-book essay)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This essay\u2014a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists\u2014examines how popular fiction contributed to and contested new forms of white racial dominance, collectively known as Jim Crow or the \u201ccolor-line,\u201d in the U.S. in the 1880s and after. \u00a0I focus in particular on the cultural work undertaken by the \u201ccommand performance\u201d scene in these texts, in which a black person was asked to tell a story or otherwise give a performance that was supposed to affirm the affection and respect \u201cgood\u201d blacks held for whites. Yet what begins to emerge again and again in such \u201ccommand performance\u201d scenes, even sometimes against the author\u2019s efforts to downplay them, are suggestions of coercion, duplicity, and instability in power hierarchies and racial identities. White supremacy is demonstrably not a given here; it is imperfectly produced, or at least reaffirmed under stress, in a way that locally conditions any power that whiteness may claim. And if a white person\u2019s sense of entitlement was so dependent upon the performance of another, to what degree could such a sense of self be threatened or even unmade in such encounters?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Making and Unmaking Whiteness<em>\u00a0surveys a broad range of black and white authors but gives special attention to the fictions of four\u2014Joel Chandler Harris, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Kate Chopin, and Pauline Hopkins\u2014who in the early Jim Crow era both dissected the contradictions in white supremacy and imagined alternatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selection of my print and digital scholarly work is listed below. \u00a0For selected less formally &#8220;academic&#8221; online-only essays from the 1990s to the 2000s, see the Online Essays menu. \u00a0See also my blog\u2019s &#8220;recent posts\u201d and \u201carchives.&#8221; \u00a0 Thanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495\/revisions\/1314"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}