Scholars@Duke
Stephanie Li

Stephanie Li

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

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Invisibility and Seeing the Black Dead in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book

Journal article MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States · December 30, 2024 AbstractReflecting on the epidemic of unarmed Black civilians killed through police force, Claudia Rankine has concluded that “The condition of black life is one of mourning.” The winner of the 2021 National ... Full text 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

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