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Stephanie Li

Professor of African & African American Studies
African & African American Studies

Selected Publications


Ugly White People Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America

Book · October 10, 2023 Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors, revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take. ... Cite

Elizabeth Warren’s A Fighting Chance

Journal Article American Literary History · 2020 Cite

Reflections on Fifty Years of The Bluest Eye

Journal Article College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies · 2020 Cite

The Evolution of JAY-Z

Journal Article Black Camera: An International Film Journal · 2019 Cite

Genre Trouble and History's Miseries in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad

Journal Article MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States · 2019 Cite

Beyoncé [Special Section]

Journal Article Black Camera: An International Film Journal · 2017 Full text Cite

Valerie Martin's Property: A Neo-Enslaver Narrative

Journal Article Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures · 2015 Cite

12 Years a Slave as a Neo-Slave Narrative

Journal Article American Literary History · 2014 Full text Cite

Paradise Lost: Reconciling the Semiotic and Symbolic in Toni Morrison's Love

Journal Article Studies in the Literary Imagination · 2014 Cite

The Parallel Lives of Bill Clinton

Journal Article American Literary History · 2012 Full text Cite

Writing the Presidency [Special Issue]

Journal Article American Literary History · 2012 Full text Cite

Five Poems: The Gospel according to Toni Morrison

Journal Article Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters · 2011 Full text Cite

Toni Morrison A Biography

Book · 2010 The book also examines Morrison's other writing--criticism, essays, edited volumes, and children's books--as well as her academic career, her work as an editor at Random House, and her political activism, most notably in the 2008 ... ... Cite

Domestic Resistance: Gardening, Mothering, and Storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes

Journal Article Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures · 2009 Full text Cite

Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon's Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet

Journal Article American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography · March 2007 Full text Cite

Love and the Trauma of Resistance in Gayl Jones's Corregidora

Journal Article Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters · 2006 Cite

Motherhood as Resistance in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Journal Article Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers · 2006 Full text Cite