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Rita Keresztesi

Email Dr. Keresztesi at ritak@ou.edu

  
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 11 (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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