Papers by Cherie Ann Turpin
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Faculty Senate Research Conference: Higher Education During Pandemics
This paper discusses how four faculty from the English BA program have responded to the crises fa... more This paper discusses how four faculty from the English BA program have responded to the crises faced during 2020 and beyond: the pandemic, the transition to online teaching, and the ongoing struggle for racial justice. First, Dr. Krauthamer provides an overview of the discussions held during our “Read and Meet” series of weekly, virtual conversations, including faculty from other programs and colleges, alumni, current students, and community members. With 24 sessions in 2020, this series resulted in a reading list of Black Lives Matter materials that we are using in our courses and the submission of a grant to the National Endowment of the Humanities. Dr. De presents how we can “understand and reconcile with some blind spots on conversations about identities and their intersections with the complexities of belonging in the 21st century.” In her words, she is concerned with “how can [one] facilitate a conversation on antiracism without also acknowledging the incompleteness of the ont...
Chapter One considers how black women\u27s literary works critique traditional literary paradigms... more Chapter One considers how black women\u27s literary works critique traditional literary paradigms through retooling and remaking them. For Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand, to be an erotic subject is to be in control over the use of one\u27s body, mind, and spirit. With this control comes an articulation of these experiences beyond the limits and expectations of society. Within the imaginary scope of these three authors, the erotic is made manifest through rewriting narrative and poetic form. Chapter Two discusses how a paradox of belonging and un-belonging to a tradition of witnessing through autobiographical narrative emerges in Zami. Lorde\u27s reinvention of the narrative reflects her understanding of language as a source of erotic power where one converts one\u27s status from invisible to visible. Chapter Three discusses how Toni Morrison\u27s novel Jazz offers a framework to examine human sensuality within the setting of a black community in flux. Morrison illustrates the erotic as a refuge from the mundane reality faced by black people living in Northern cities during the early part of the twentieth century. Jazz reworks traditional narrative structure in order to build her vision of black existence and the erotic. Chapter Four explores the novel At the Change and Full of the Moon. Brand dismantles the notion of a fixed definition of form and subverts literary structures in order to imagine pleasure through unfamiliar arrangements of language. Brand constructs a myriad of personalities to illustrate the multiplicity of voices and perspectives regarding black female experience. Chapter Five discusses how the erotic is a disruption of expectations of sameness and totality. For Brand, Lorde, and Morrison, writing the erotic is to use language to show the combining of spiritual love with sensual love. Within the imaginary scope of these three authors, the erotic is made manifest through the discontinuity of narrative and poetic form.
Feminist Teacher, 2007
When Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall wrote Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equal... more When Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall wrote Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities, their work was clearly inspired by the foundation set in place through the work of earlier Black feminist scholars and teachers who sought to rewrite and rethink the way in which Black women approached the ideas of community and leadership. Rather than approach the task of teaching young people as outsiders, Cole and Guy-Sheftall assert a need for us to begin with our own transformation:
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Papers by Cherie Ann Turpin