Faculty
Hershini Young
Associate Professor
Office: 509 Clemens Hall
Phone number: 716-645-2575 x1051
E-mail address: hbhana@buffalo.edu
Interests:
contemporary black diasporic literature, black female sexuality, queer studies
Courses taught:
- Contemporary African American Literature
- Gender, Sexuality and Race
- Black Performance Studies
- Black Queer Studies
Work in progress:
book:
- Coercive Performances: Spectacular Blackness and the Politics of Agency
essays:
- "Theorizing Consent: Cape Slavery, 'Love' and the Case of Tryntjie of Madagascar"
- " 'The Chambermaid, the Whore and the Witness': Carrie Mae Weems' 'The Louisiana Project'"
Selected publications:
Books
- Haunting Capital: Memory, Text and the Black Diasporic Body. University Press of New England. (2005)
Articles
- “Inheriting the Criminalized Body: Race, Gender and Slavery in Gayl Jones’ Eva’s Man.” African American Review. 39.3 (Fall 2005): 377-393
- “The Political Economy of Food: Hunger in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. Special Issue on Food. 17.1 (Spring 2000): 18-24
- “Oceanic Mothering: Remembering the Ancestors in Drisana Deborah Jack’s Skin.” Introduction to Skin by Drisana Deborah Jack. Philipsburg, St Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers, 2006.
- “Reading Ghostly Desire: Writing the Edges of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power.” Emerging Perspectives on Bessie Head. Ed. Huma Ibrahim. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2003. 52-73
- “Broken Mirrors and Reflections of One’s Self: Blackness, Indianness and Hybridity.” Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/ Body Politics in Africana Communities. Eds. Kimberly Moffit and Regina Spellers. New Jersey: Hampton Press. 14 manuscript pages. (Forthcoming)
