115 research outputs found
Written Evidence in Administrative Proceedings: A Plea for Less Talk
The notion that talk is the absence of thought is more poetry than analysis. Nevertheless, lawyers know that all talk is not thought and that there is at least a grain of truth in the poet\u27s logic. Some of the same logic may mercifully be applied to the proceedings of ad- ministrative agencies to test whether all the talk in such proceedings is necessary to a rational result and sound implementation of public policy
Queering I Am Not Your Negro: or Why We Need James Baldwin More Than Ever
The author reviews Raoul Peckâs 2016 film, I Am Not Your Negro, finding it a remarkable achievement as a documentary that breaks with cinematic conventions and emphasizes the importance of listening as much as looking. The director has singled out Baldwin as the writer whose work spoke most directly to his own identity and experience during his peripatetic childhood in Haiti and Africa, and in I Am Not Your Negro, Peck aims to ensure that Baldwinâs words will have a similar effect on audiences. However, even as it succeeds in reanimating Baldwinâs voice for a new political era, I Am Not Your Negro inadvertently exposes the difficulty of fully capturing or honoring the writerâs complex legacy. As scholars have long noted, interest in Baldwinâs life and work tends to divide along racial and sexual lines, and Peckâs documentary is no exception. The filmmaker privileges Baldwinâs blackness over his queerness by overlooking the parts of The Devil Finds Work and No Name in the Street in which the writerâs queerness figures prominently
Romancing Beale Street (review)
The author reviews Barry Jenkinsâs 2018 film adaptation of Baldwinâs novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, finding that Jenkinsâs lush, painterly, and dreamlike visual style successfully translates Baldwinâs cadenced prose into cinematic language. But in interpreting the novel as the âperfect fusionâ of the anger of Baldwinâs essays and the sensuality of his fiction, Jenkins overlooks the novelâs most significant aspect, its gender politics. Baldwin began working on If Beale Street Could Talk shortly after being interviewed by Black Arts poet Nikki Giovanni for the PBS television show, Soul!. Giovanniâs rejection of Baldwinâs claims that for black men to overcome the injuries of white supremacy they needed to fulfill the breadwinner role prompted him to rethink his understanding of African American manhood and deeply influenced his representation of the novelâs black male characters. The novel aims to disarticulate black masculinity from patriarchy. Jenkinsâs misunderstanding of this aspect of the novel surfaces in his treatment of the character of Frank, who in the novel serves as an example of the destructiveness of patriarchal masculinity, and in his rewriting of the novelâs ending
Evaluation of a presecondary-level individualized mathematics program for Inuit adults in Northern QueÌbec
MOF materials as therapeutic agents, drug carriers, imaging agents and biosensors in cancer biomedicine:Recent advances and perspectives
REVIEW: Ira Robinson, Rivka Augenfeld and Karen Biskin, eds., "The Future of the Past: The Jewish Public Library of Montreal, 1914-2014"
Queering I Am Not Your Negro: or Why We Need James Baldwin More Than Ever
The author reviews Raoul Peckâs 2016 film, I Am Not Your Negro, finding it a remarkable achievement as a documentary that breaks with cinematic conventions and emphasizes the importance of listening as much as looking. The director has singled out Baldwin as the writer whose work spoke most directly to his own identity and experience during his peripatetic childhood in Haiti and Africa, and in I Am Not Your Negro, Peck aims to ensure that Baldwinâs words will have a
similar effect on audiences. However, even as it succeeds in reanimating Baldwinâs voice for a new political era, I Am Not Your Negro inadvertently exposes the difficulty of fully capturing or honoring the writerâs complex legacy. As scholars have long noted, interest in Baldwinâs life and work tends to divide along racial and sexual lines, and Peckâs documentary is no exception. The filmmaker privileges Baldwinâs blackness over his queerness by overlooking the parts of The Devil Finds Work and No Name in the Street in which the writerâs queerness figures prominently
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