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\nFor over twenty years\, Honoré\;e Fanonne Jeffers has been lifting her voice
on issues of Black culture\, racism\, American history\, and gender throug
h the medium of writing. Her most recent collection\, \;The Age of Phi
llis \;(2020) was long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry an
d nominated for the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work i
n Poetry. She is also the author of \;The Gospel of Barbecue \;(20
00)\; \;Outlandish Blues \;(2003)\; \;Red Clay Suite \;(20
07)\; and \;The Glory Gets \;(2015). Jeffers is also a prose write
r and author of the forthcoming novel \;The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bo
is \;(2021). She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Ant
iquarian Society\, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, the National Endowm
ent for the Arts\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Witter Bynner Foundatio
n through the Library of Congress\, and the Tennessee Williams&rsquo\; Sch
olarship in Fiction from the Sewanee Writers Conference. She was also the
winner of the Emerging Fiction Fellowship from the Aspen Summer Words Conf
erence and recently was honored with the 2018 Harper Lee Award for Literar
y Distinction\, a lifetime achievement award. She is a Professor of Englis
h at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. \;Kerry Sinanan\, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas-San An tonio\, received her Ph.D. from Trinity College\, Dublin in 2003. She has taught at several universities in the UK and Ireland including the Univers ity of the West of England\, and the National University of Ireland\, Galw ay. She is now completing her monograph\, \;Myths of Mastery: Traders\ , Planters and Colonial Agents 1750-1833 \;for The University of North Carolina Press. This book examines the writings in various genres by slav e traders and slave owners from the mid-eighteenth century up to British e mancipation (1834). It analyzes enslavers' attempts to construct an identi ty or self in their texts as they draw on a range of literary genres and c ontemporaneous discourses\, tracing their self-justification as they made a living within the violence of slavery. Myths of Mastery situates itself within the related areas of eighteenth-century studies and critical race t heory to focus specifically on the articulation of mastery and selfhood wi thin a range of writings produced by British enslavers. Twitter handle: @k erry_sinanan
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