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Rita
Keresztesi
Email Dr. Keresztesi at ritak@ou.edu
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| Rita Keresztesi is the
author of Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the
World Wars (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). Her current
book-in-progress is entitled Transnational Dialogues: Black Power
in
the Diaspora. She is originally from Pécs, Hungary. She has
published “Ethnic Modernism” in Blackwell’s Companion to the Modern
American Novel, ed. John Matthews (Blackwell, 2009); “George
Schuyler’s
Black No More (1931)” in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, ed.
Michael
Soto (Peter Lang, 2008);
“Romancing the Borderlands: Josephina Niggli’s Mexican Village (1945)”
in Doubled Plots: Romance and History, eds. Susan Strehle and
Mary
Paniccia Carden (University Press of Mississippi, 2003); “Writing
Culture and Performing Race in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea: The Half-Blood
(1927)” in Literature and Racial Ambiguity, eds. Neil Brooks
and Teresa
Hubel (Rodopi, 2002); and an English translation of György
Lukács "Aesthetic Culture" in Yale Journal of Criticism
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(1998). Her article “Hurston in Haiti: Neocolonialism and
Zombification” is forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Collection of
Essays
on the Zombie ed. Christopher Moreman (McFarland, 2010); and
“Carnival
and Calypso, or the Business of Resistance in the Texts of V. S.
Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, and David Rudder” in The Popular and the
Sacred: Cultural Studies at the Crossroads, ed. Sonjah Stanley
Niaah
(Blackwell). Professor Keresztesi's research and teaching focus on
issues of race and ethnicity, cultural studies, contemporary U.S. and
Afro-Caribbean culture, theories of post/modernity and globalization,
and the postcolony. Her interdisciplinary interests include film and
Afro-Caribbean performative cultural expressions, such as carnival,
calypso and reggae. She is also affiliated with the Film Studies
Program.
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