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From the Archives: An Interview with John Keene, by Jeffery Renard Allen – BIG OTHER
Publish Date
June 18, 2022
Interviewees
John Keene
Interviewers
Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher
BIG OTHER
Topics
AIDS crisis
American imperialism
art-making
Black Lives Matter movement
Covid pandemic
experimental prose
failure of American exceptionalism
George Floyd's killing
Harvard University
history of St. Louis and Missouri
languages
literature
music in literature
neoliberalism
prose poetry
queer subjectivity
Queer theory
racial capitalism
sound in literature
systemic and structural racism
writers' response to social events
People Mentioned
Adrienne Rich
Alice Walker
Audre Lorde
Binyavanga Wainaina
Cheryl Clarke
Clarence Major
Derek Walcott
Dolores Kendrick
Edgar Degas
Eduardo Galeano
Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Eric Garner
Eve Sedgwick
Foucault
Gayl Jones
George Floyd
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Ishmael Reed
Jay Wright
Jean Baptiste DuSable
Joel Porte
John Edgar Wideman
John Gardner
Joseph Lease
Judy Grahn
Jürgen Habermas
Kurtis Blow
Lucy Terry Prince
Lyn Hejinian
Melvin Dixon
Michael Brown
Michael Coulson
Nikki Giovanni
Ntozake Shange
Pat Parker
Phillip Brian Harper
Randall Kenan
Samuel Delany
Sherley Anne Williams
Susan Sontag
Terry McMillan
Toni Morrison
Trayvon Martin
William Carlos Williams
Works Mentioned
Annotations
Black Fire!: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Corregidora
Counternarratives
History of Sexuality
Huckleberry Finn
Jonny Quest
Just Above My Head
Rapper's Delight
Places Mentioned
Harvard University
Mississippi River
Missouri River
St. Louis
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