BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11322-97b99119c423d640b8b23d901403b7cc@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260417T123845Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T133000 SUMMARY:The Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Richard Purcell DESCRIPTION:\nThis talk comes out of a couple of current book project th at attempts to theorize the relationship between blackness\, art\, and t he cultural politics of labor throughout the 1970s and into the Great Re cession of 2008. In We’re All Corner Hustlers Now\, I discuss the prolif eration of literary memoirs and biographical works penned by and about f igures associated with rap music since the turn of the twenty-first cent ury and especially the growing intersection between the memoirs of CEOs and musicians like Russell Simmons\, 50 Cent\, Jay-Z\, DJ Khaled with a variety of self-help and business management genres. Focusing specifical ly on two works written by Curtis James “50 Cent” Jackson III\, From Pie ces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens (2005) and The 50th Law (2009)\, co-written with self-help guru Robert Greene\, I use Jackso n’s works to explore the way rappers present themselves as what Micki Mc Gee calls the “belabored” subject par excellence. While scholars like Le ster Spence and Christopher Holmes Smith have analyzed how rap music exp resses this neoliberal turn\, this talk argues that the literary express ion of this belabored subject forces us to reconsider the legacies of Bl ack memoir\, autobiography and other modes of life writing in the twenty -first century.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cml it-luncheon-richard-purcell/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This talk comes out of a couple of current book project that attempts to theorize the r elationship between blackness, art, and the cultural politics of labor t hroughout the 1970s and into the Great Recession of 2008. In We’re A ll Corner Hustlers Now, I discuss the proliferation of literary mem oirs and biographical works penned by and about figures associated with rap music since the turn of the twenty-first century and especially the growing intersection between the memoirs of CEOs and musicians like Russ ell Simmons, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, DJ Khaled with a variety of self-help and b usiness management genres. Focusing specifically on two works written by Curtis James “50 Cent” Jackson III, From Pieces to Weight: Once Upo n a Time in Southside Queens (2005) and The 50th Law (2009 ), co-written with self-help guru Robert Greene, I use Jackson’s works t o explore the way rappers present themselves as what Micki McGee calls t he “belabored” subject par excellence. While scholars like Lester Spence and Christopher Holmes Smith have analyzed how rap music expresses this neoliberal turn, this talk argues that the literary expression of this belabored subject forces us to reconsider the legacies of Black memoir, autobiography and other modes of life writing in the twenty-first centur y.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cmlit-lunch eon-richard-purcell/

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