Alan Rice Research Articles

Exploding and Being Swallowed: Cannibalism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Cannibalism is a meta-discourse in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In Alan Rice’s “Who’s Eating Whom,” Beloved’s dream of “exploding and being swallowed” has been critically linked to the cruel practices of slavery, yet it is important to note the way in which the dream of “being swallowed” is largely unexplored. This paper concentrates on the latter aspect, stating that in Beloved, cannibalism and slavery relate not only to the domination of black slaves by white masters, but also to the black mother-child relationships between Sethe and Beloved, Sethe and Denver, and the black sister-sister relationship between Denver and Beloved. This paper argues that the whites designate themselves as the ones who represent civilization through implanting the image of cannibalism into the black Other. Ironically, the system of slavery precisely deconstructs the images that they have built of themselves, making them something no more than cannibals.

Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic by Alan Rice (review)

Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic by Alan Rice (review)

Slavery and the British Country House. Edited by MADGEDRESSER and ANDREWHANN. Swindon: English Heritage. 2013. xv + 180 p. 225 col. and b. and w. illus. £50 (hb). ISBN 978‐1‐84802‐064‐1.

Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesVolume 37, Issue 4 p. 552-553 Book review Slavery and the British Country House. Edited by MADGE DRESSER and ANDREW HANN. Swindon: English Heritage. 2013. xv + 180 p. 225 col. and b. and w. illus. £50 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84802-064-1. Professor ALAN RICE, ALAN RICE University of Central LancashireSearch for more papers by this author Professor ALAN RICE, ALAN RICE University of Central LancashireSearch for more papers by this author First published: 06 November 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12133Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume37, Issue4Special Issue: Clair-obscur. Guest edited by Mark Darlow and Marion LafougeDecember 2014Pages 552-553 RelatedInformation

The use of simulation mannequins in education

Effective and realistic simulation training is an important part of preparing paramedics for the pre-hospital environment. Alan Rice considers the various benefits and negatives of mannequin-based simulation training for paramedics.

Alan Rice, Creating Memorials, Building Identities. The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 3.) Liverpool, Liverpool University Press 2012 Rice Alan Creating Memorials, Building Identities. The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 3.) 2012 Liverpool University Press Liverpool £ 16,99

Alan Rice, Creating Memorials, Building Identities. The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 3.) Liverpool, Liverpool University Press 2012 Rice Alan Creating Memorials, Building Identities. The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 3.) 2012 Liverpool University Press Liverpool £ 16,99

Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Alan Rice. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2010. ix + 244 pp. (Cloth US$ 95.00; 2012, paper US$ 39.95)

Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Alan Rice. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2010. ix + 244 pp. (Cloth US$ 95.00; 2012, paper US$ 39.95)

Response: When “Nothing Is Said of Black Heroes”

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

Black Is Bountiful: From Heroic Action to Artistic Heroism in Afro-Atlantic History

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

Hidden Heroes of the Black Atlantic

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

Tribute to the Martyrs

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

Bernier’s Experimental Poetics; or, What Was African American Experimentalism?

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

What Characters of Blood Can Offer Art Historians

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

Assessing Characters of Blood ; or, What Is Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination?: Introduction

The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie Chambers and Richard Newman use it as a jumping-off point to debate heroism, diasporic memory, the black Atlantic, and the relationship between art and activism. Responding to these commentaries, Bernier expands upon some of her book’s themes.

Roundtable: Alan Rice's Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic - Alan Rice, Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010, £65.00 hardback, £16.99 paperback forthcoming early 2012). Pp. 256. isbn978 1 846 31471 1, 978 1 846 31759 0.

Roundtable: Alan Rice's <i>Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic</i> - Alan Rice, Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010, £65.00 hardback, £16.99 paperback forthcoming early 2012). Pp. 256. <scp>isbn</scp>978 1 846 31471 1, 978 1 846 31759 0.

XVI * American Literature: The Twentieth Century

This chapter has four sections: 1. Poetry; 2. Fiction 1900–1945 (Women Writers); 3. African American Writing; 4. Native, Asian American, Latino/a and General Ethnic Writing. Section 1 is by Lacy Rumsey; section 2 is by Elizabeth Nolan; section 3 is by Alan Rice and Stella Bolaki; section 4 is by A. Robert Lee

XVI * American Literature: The Twentieth Century

This chapter has six sections: 1. Poetry; 2. Fiction 1900–1945; 3. Fiction since 1945; 4. Drama; 5. African American Writing; 6. Native, Asian American, Latino/a and General Ethnic Writing. Section 1 is by Lacy Rumsey; section 2 is by Stephen McVeigh and Elizabeth Nolan; section 3 is by Sarah MacLachlan, Rachel van Duyvenbode and Luigi Fidanza; section 4 is by Steven Price; section 5 is by Alan Rice; and section 6 is by A. Robert Lee. Alan Rice's section on African American literature covers material published in both 2003 and 2004.

The Black Atlantic Archive

What, exactly, is the Atlantic? It has been more than a decade since Paul Gilroy published his monograph, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993). Since three of the four books under review have the phrase in their titles (the fourth, Philip Gould's Barbaric Traffic, refers more generally to the 18th-century Atlantic world, presumably because many of the writers he considers were not black), we can begin by asking what these authors find most compelling about Gilroy's book. For Vincent Carretta and Gould, The Black Atlantic offers an influential path beyond nation and race as master terms, [i]magining instead a diasporic model of racial identity (3). In the fourth chapter of Barbaric Traffic, Gould contends that the autobiographies of John Marrant and Venture Smith argue against Gilroy's claim that liberalism and the Enlightenment are little more than engines of terror for black people in the eighteenth century (123). But Gould's very topic-antislavery rhetoric in England and Americaclearly follows Gilroy's lead in replacing the nation-state with a transatlantic context (7). Gilroy is most pervasively present as a model in Alan Rice's Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic. For Rice, Gilroy's book was epochal, a paradigm shift beyond the narrow nationalisms of much African diasporan (23). Rice makes much of Gilroy's clever pun that the black Atlantic's counterculture of modernity was more a matter of routes than roots. Because their collection of primary texts focuses on black writers who moved, either physically or imaginatively, between the US, Nova Scotia, England, and Sierra Leone, Joanna Brooks and John Saillant unsurprisingly also seize on this pun in Face Zion Forward (5). Clearly, Gilroy's book remains a powerful model of thinking beyond the self-serving narratives of the nation-state, a shift of perspective that our current global self-consciousness finds right and proper. But this surely cannot be the whole reason for Gilroy's influence. Such a transnational vision was not in itself a new approach to black history and culture in 1993, after all. Scholars studying the cultural transformations of the African diaspora (Brooks and Saillant note particularly Robert Farris Thompson and Cedric Robinson

“The Republic of Letters”: Frederick Douglass, Ireland, and the Irish Narratives

ONE of the most notable visitors to Irish shores during the nineteenth century was Frederick Douglass, author, abolitionist, and fugitive slave. (1) Douglass had left the United States following the publication in 1845 of his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, in order to avoid recapture and re-enslavement, and to generate support for the antislavery cause in Europe. His travels throughout the then United Kingdom in the two years from 1845 to 1847 had profound effects on Douglass' social and intellectual status. Alan Rice describes him as arriving in [and Ireland] as raw material of a great black figure; [and leaving] ... in April 1847 the finished independent man, cut from a whole cloth and able to make his own decisions about the strategies and ideologies of the abolitionist movement. (2) Douglass' personal and political transformation is evident in the shifting form of his literary work, itself enmeshed in those same strategies and ideologies. In Ireland his autobiography was republished by the Dublin Quaker printer Richard Webb shortly after Douglass' arrival in September 1845, and it went into variant and second Irish editions in 1846. (3) Just as Douglass' personal and professional standing were deeply affected by the experience of being outside the US, the reprinting of the Narrative in Ireland marks the beginning of a stage in Douglass' literary career that has profound implications for contemporary readings of his life and work. Taken in conjunction with his other literary output at this time--the letters to Garrison from Britain and Ireland that were subsequently published in the abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator--the Irish Narratives mark a transitional phase in Douglass' emergence as a modern subject and in his negotiation of nineteenth-century models of socio-cultural identity. For with the republication of the Narrative in Dublin came several and various changes in the form of the work, with often contradictory implications. These changes included the incorporation of a resolution of the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society on the flyleaf; varying portraits of Douglass on the title spread; a verse from John Greenleaf Whittier on the title page; and a written by Douglass and inserted before the preface to the US edition. New appendices included the Address to the Friends of the Slave; a reproduction and contestation of A.C.C. Thompson's refutation of Douglass' Narrative in the Delaware Republican; a selection of favorable critical notices from US and British newspapers; and two testimonies from Protestant clergymen in Belfast. All of these changes, most notably the new preface written by Douglass himself, illustrate the strategies he used in negotiating the social, economic, and ideological landscape of the Atlantic world. (4) The new first appears in the variant first Irish edition published in March 1846 and, in an extended version, in the second Irish edition of May of the same year. Both editions were produced after Douglass had left Ireland for Britain and was lecturing on his famous Send Back the Money campaign against the Free Church of Scotland. (5) The first introduction, therefore, was written in Ireland in 1845 and extended while Douglass was in Glasgow in 1846. As such, the appearance and meaning of the can be seen as bearing directly on Douglass' Irish experience--an experience marked by economic success, social mobility, and increasing ideological independence. The preface is important both as autobiographical and ideological commentary on Douglass' changing status within abolitionism and his increasing awareness of the risks and opportunities of engagement with the society and politics of the Atlantic world. While the American edition confined itself to the exposure and abolition of slavery as part of an ongoing domestic campaign against that institution in the US, the Irish editions reconfigure--through the addition of the preface--the anti-slavery debate and the slave-subject in the international discourse of Western modernity. …

Talk as the Work: The Accomplishment of School Administration

An earlier version of this paper, under the same title, was presented at the annual conference of the Australian Communication Association, Sydney, 1981. The text that appears below is an extensive revision of the original. I should like to thank the threeASQ reviewers as well as my friends and colleagues Tom Greenfield, Alec McHoul, John Hunt, Philip Greenway, Alan Rice, Robin Small, Helen Praetz, Ray McCulloch, and Michael Norman for their helpful criticisms and advice during the writing of this article Thanks are also extended to Cath Henderson and Bev Schneider for typing the manuscript.