Author: Amadi Ozier

Amadi Ozier is a PhD student at Rutgers University, studying the psychic inter-articulation of humor and violence in African American literature and performance. She currently teaches courses on composition, comedy, and the principles of literary theory.

Amadi Ozier is a PhD student at Rutgers University, studying the psychic inter-articulation of humor and violence in African American literature and performance. She currently teaches courses on composition, comedy, and the principles of literary theory.

Authored by Amadi Ozier

This Body Still Has Time: Jermaine Singleton’s Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual

Amadi Ozier

As a young child, Frederick Douglass watches his “old master” Captain Anthony strip his Aunt Hester to her waist, tie her arms to a hook, and whip her until blood drips to the kitchen floor—all as punishment for speaking to … Continue reading “This Body Still Has Time: Jermaine Singleton’s Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual“

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