{"id":227,"date":"2014-12-12T14:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=227"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T14:28:41","slug":"phd-success-emma-cleary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/12\/12\/phd-success-emma-cleary\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Success: Emma Cleary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in congratulating Emma Cleary for the submission of her PhD thesis entitled <em>Jazz&#8211;<\/em><em>\u2010<\/em><em>Shaped Bodies: Mapping City Space, Time, and Sound in Black Transnational Literature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cleary&#8217;s thesis concerns &#8220;representations of the city in black transnational literature, with a focus on sonic schemas and mapping, cultural geography, posthumanist thought, and the discourse of diaspora. The research investigates the extent to which the urban landscape is figured as a panoptic structure in twentieth and twenty&#8211;\u2010 first century diasporic texts, and how the mimetic function of artistic performance challenges this structure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The work offers a comparative analysis of American, Canadian, and Caribbean landscapes and textscapes, the study of which &#8220;negotiates and transcends shifting national, cultural, and geographical borderlines and boundaries that seek to encode and enclose black subjectivity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This research offers important new readings of the works of James Baldwin, Earl Lovelace, Toni Morrison, and Wayde Compton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in congratulating Emma Cleary for the submission of her PhD thesis entitled Jazz&#8211;\u2010Shaped Bodies: Mapping City Space, Time, and Sound in Black Transnational Literature. Cleary&#8217;s thesis concerns &#8220;representations of the city in black transnational literature, with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/12\/12\/phd-success-emma-cleary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3626,40446],"tags":[83555,83561,83563,83557,83562,83558,67203,83556,16075,83560,83559],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-student-success-2","tag-staffspgr","tag-african-american-literature","tag-afro-canadian-literature","tag-baldwin","tag-caribbean-literature","tag-earl-lovelace","tag-emma-cleary","tag-english-and-philosophy","tag-staffordshire-university","tag-toni-morrison","tag-wayde-compton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}