One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher wrote short stories depicting the multifaceted black urban experience that are still acclaimed today for their humor, grace, and ...objective view of Harlem life. Through his words, wrote the New York Times Book Review, "one feels, smells, and tastes his Harlem; its people come alive and one cares about them." A definitive collection of Fisher's short stories, The City of Refuge offers vibrant tales that deal with the problems faced by newcomers to the city, ancestor figures who struggle to instill a sense of integrity in the young, problems of violence and vengeance, and tensions of caste and class. This anthology has now been expanded to include seven previously unpublished stories that take up such themes as marital infidelity and passing for black and also relate the further adventures of Jinx and Bubber, the comic duo who appeared in Fisher's two novels. This new edition also includes two unpublished speeches and the popular article "The Caucasian Storms Harlem, " describing the craze for black music and dance. John McCluskey's introduction has been updated to place the additional works within the context of Fisher's career while situating his oeuvre within the broader context of American writing during the twenties. Fisher recognized the dramatic and comic power in African American folklore and music and frequented Harlem's many cabarets, speakeasies, and nightclubs, and at the core of his work is a strong regard for music as context and counterpoint. The City of Refuge now better captures the sounds of the city experience by presenting all of Fisher's known stories. It offers a portrait of Harlem unmatched in depth and range by Fisher's contemporaries or successors, celebrating, as Booklist noted, "the complexity of black urban life in its encounter with the dangers and delights of the city." This expanded edition adds new perspectives to that experience and will enhance Fisher's status for a new generation of readers.
One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher wrote short stories depicting the multifaceted black urban experience that are still acclaimed today for their humor, grace, and ...objective view of Harlem life. Through his words, wrote the New York Times Book Review , “one feels, smells, and tastes his Harlem; its people come alive and one cares about them.”
A definitive collection of Fisher’s short stories, The City of Refuge offers vibrant tales that deal with the problems faced by newcomers to the city, ancestor figures who struggle to instill a sense of integrity in the young, problems of violence and vengeance, and tensions of caste and class. This anthology has now been expanded to include seven previously unpublished stories that take up such themes as marital infidelity and passing for black and also relate the further adventures of Jinx and Bubber, the comic duo who appeared in Fisher’s two novels.
This new edition also includes two unpublished speeches and the popular article “The Caucasian Storms Harlem,” describing the craze for black music and dance. John McCluskey’s introduction has been updated to place the additional works within the context of Fisher’s career while situating his oeuvre within the broader context of American writing during the twenties.
Fisher recognized the dramatic and comic power in African American folklore and music and frequented Harlem’s many cabarets, speakeasies, and nightclubs, and at the core of his work is a strong regard for music as context and counterpoint. The City of Refuge now better captures the sounds of the city experience by presenting all of Fisher’s known stories. It offers a portrait of Harlem unmatched in depth and range by Fisher’s contemporaries or successors, celebrating, as Booklist noted, “the complexity of black urban life in its encounter with the dangers and delights of the city.” This expanded edition adds new perspectives to that experience and will enhance Fisher’s status for a new generation of readers.
The Shadow of White Fisher, Rudolph
PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America,
05/2012, Letnik:
127, Številka:
3
Journal Article
During the nine years of his writing career, rudolph fisher published two novels as well as fifteen short stories and won
Crisis
magazine's Amy Spingarn Prize for fiction. He also published two ...scientific articles and a much anthologized essay, while writing two plays, a revue (with Langston Hughes), and eight other stories unpublished in his time. Seven of the unpublished stories were collected after his death, but one simply disappeared. In May 1925 Fisher submitted his only copy of “The Shadow of White” to
Survey Graphic
at the invitation of its editor, Paul Kellogg, whom he had met at that year's
Opportunity
dinner. Thirteen months after the submission, Kellogg offered eighty dollars for the story and said he hoped to publish it in 1926–27. Yet the story never appeared.
Emergence of the New Negro Mckay, Claude; Toomer, Jean; Fauset, Jessie ...
To Make a Poet Black,
08/2018
Book Chapter
By the time of the death of Booker Washington in 1915 the Negro, with Dr. DuBois as chief architect, had reared a complicated thought structure designed as impregnable against the shifting ...circumstances of that day. He was certain that he must assimilate the characteristics of white America, while at the same time he took pride in his own peculiar contribution to American civilization. He earnestly wished to develop a culture within a culture at the same time laughing derisively at those who urged a forty-ninth state for the colonization of Negroes. Whenever possible he ignored all consciousness of race, and
MMN and P3a are EEG-derived event related potentials that are thought to be prospective biomarkers for schizophrenia and, potentially, early-phase psychosis (EPP).
EPP (n = 12) and healthy control ...(HC; n = 35) participants listened to a multi-feature optimal paradigm with five deviant types (gap, duration, location, intensity, and frequency).
There was a significant amplitude difference between the EPP and HC group with duration MMN (p = .02). No significant amplitude differences between groups were found for the P3a waveform. There were several correlations for the EPP group with the BNSS, SOFAS, and PANSS-general questionnaires. Length of illness was not associated with MMN or P3a.
The optimal paradigm is suitable for eliciting multiple deviant types within a short amount of time in both clinical and healthy populations. This study confirms duration MMN deficits within an EPP group and that MMN is related to functional outcomes and positive and negative symptomology.
•Duration mismatch negativity is reduced in individuals with early-phase psychosis compared to healthy controls.•Mismatch negativity is correlated to functional outcomes and symptomatology in early-phase psychosis.•Mismatch negativity and P3a are not associated will illness duration in early-phase psychosis.•Mismatch negativity may be suitable as an indicator of symptom severity for schizophrenia.
•Biological sex is often overlooked or underreported in electrophysiological research.•Research examining sex in MMN and P3a are limited and inconsistent.•Our study found no significant sex ...differences in MMN and P3a.•Novel stimuli, which is more representative of the natural environment than standard tones that are often implemented, was used to elicit MMN and P3a waveforms.
The mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a waveforms are both markers of auditory change detection. MMN indicates deficits in performing auditory change-detection tasks, while the P3a reflects the evaluative and conscious aspect of orienting to the sound. Understanding the role biological sex has concerning these waveforms would provide insight into overall brain-based differences, but whether sex differences exist to such a degree that it can moderate the effect of auditory change detection is not certain. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine potential sex differences in MMN and P3a elicited by a novelty paradigm in a healthy population. The results showed no significant differences between males and females. This study proves to be useful by adding to the limited literature on the topic and by providing a foundation of knowledge regarding sex differences in auditory change detection mechanisms within the population.
