Shana L. Redmond, Author at Aster(ix) Journal

Shana L. Redmond

A boundaryless writer and scholar, Shana L. Redmond (she/her) is the author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2014) and the award-winning Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke UP, 2020). She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

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For Something Real

The fractures, herniation, and slippages somehow become tolerable, managed through an elaborate system of forgetting and excusing and stores of fortitude that might otherwise be dedicated to breaking that which breaks us.