Lavelle Porter

Sep 23, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Benjamin Voigt |Lavelle Porter

Audre Lorde is dead. Long live Audre Lorde. When a French or British monarch dies, it is custom for royal subjects to proclaim this seeming paradox: The queen is dead! Long live the queen! Their aim is to acknowledge the demise of a monarch (an individual) while affirming the persistence of the monarchy (the institution).

Dec 27, 2023 | daily.jstor.org | Lavelle Porter |Margaret Russett |Derek C. Maus |LEAH MILNE

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Cards on the table. I’ve probably read Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure more than most people. I’ve taught it, and I’ve written about it as academic satire in my 2019 book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual. In fact, Erasure was one of the books that inspired The Blackademic Life.