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Obsidian SPR15 Final.Pdf Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora 40th Anniversary Special Issue: Jeffery Renard Allen Spring 2015 40.1 • 40.2 Celebrating Over 40 Years of Continuous Publication Alvin Aubert m FOUNDER Duriel E. Harris m EDITOR Reggie Scott Young m GUEST EDITOR Jonah Mixon-Webster m EDITORIAL ASSISTANT EDITORS EMERITI Gerald Barrax Joyce Pettis Doris Lucas Laryea Tom Lisk Afaa Michael Weaver Sheila Smith McKoy EDITORIAL BOARD Tisa Bryant, Fiction & Hybrid Genre Opal Moore, Fiction LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Digital Media Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Visual Art Krista Franklin, Visual Art Khadijah Queen, Poetry Meta DuEwa Jones, Criticism Paul Ugor, Criticism & Drama John Keene, Fiction & Hybrid Genre Tyrone Williams, Poetry Keith D. Leonard, Criticism Keith Wilson, Digital Media & Lenard D. Moore, Poetry Web Consultation ADVISORY & CONTRIBUTING EDITORS L. Rosanne M. Adderley Clifford E. Griffin T. Urayoán Noel Houston A. Baker, Jr. Karla F. C. Holloway Sterling D. Plumpp Jean-Pierre Bekolo Erica Hunt Tara Reeser Kwame Dawes Tayari Jones giovanni singleton Madhu Dubey Douglas Kearney Nancy D. Tolson Sally Ann Ferguson Yakini B. Kemp Afaa Michael Weaver Charlene Gilbert Shelia Smith McKoy Richard Yarborough PRODUCTION & DESIGN Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University Steve Halle, Production Director Marion Sakaluk, Graduate Assistant Megan Ondrejka & Jill Zilinskas, Interns COVER ART: “Tell Me What I Won’t Forget,” Victor Ehikhamenor FACING PAGE: “Not the First Time You Are Telling Me this Story,” Victor Ehikhamenor In 1975 Alvin Aubert founded Obsidian at SUNY (Fredonia) under the name Obsidian: Black Literature in Review. Initially funded by Aubert and the support of individual contributors, over the following decades Obsidian would be published and supported by the resources of several universities. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, the journal was published by Wayne State University in Detroit under the name Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review. In 1985, Gerald Barrax brought Obsidian II to North Carolina State University. Whilst there, Afaa Michael Weaver helped to transform the journal from Obsidian II to Obsidian III: Liter- ature in the African Diaspora. Other editors emeriti during Obsidian’s time at NCSU include Doris Laryea, Joyce Pettis, Thomas Lisk, and Sheila Smith McKoy. In the fall of 2014, current editor Duriel E. Harris initiated the successful transfer of Obsidian to the Publications Unit at Illinois State University. With the publication of the spring 2015 issue dedicated to the work of Jeffery Renard Allen, Obsidian celebrates over forty years of continuous publication and exhibits a new subtitle, Lit- erature & Arts in the African Diaspora. This Illinois State University inaugural issue of Obsidian—volumes 40.1 and 40.2 (spring 2015)— restores the original volume numbering to reflect the journal’s legacy. Founded in 1975, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is a semiannual journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, performance, and visual and media art by African/Black artists, with critical and scholarly writing by the general community on the subject of these creative works. To advance discourses engaging diasporic arts and letters, Obsidian regularly devotes issues to special topics. For its fall 2015 double issue, Obsidian is currently accepting submissions of original unpublished essays presented at the 2014 Furious Flower Conference and unpublished works of poetry by associated poets, as well as creative “experiments in joy” and related criticism as initiated by Call & Response—a dynamic of black women and performance. Obsidian accepts submissions between September 15 and March 15 (unless otherwise noted). While we do accept simultaneous submissions, we do not accept previously published works. Manuscripts, visual art, and digital media should be submitted using the Obsidian submission management system, which can be found online at obsidian. submittable.com/submit. Preferred file types are as follows: for manuscripts DOC, DOCX and PDF; for visual art TIFF and JPG; for audio files MP3 and WAV; for video MPG, AVI and MOV files; and for other digital works SWF, GIF, UNITY game files, and HTML5 (with or without CSS and JavaScript markup).With the exception of poetry submissions, all text manuscripts should be double spaced. Please send up to five poems of any style totaling no more than eight pages. Fiction and essays should total no more than twenty pages or 5000 words (whichever is achieved first). Critical essays should follow The Chicago Manual of Style for grammar and the MLA Handbook for formatting citations and works cited. Playwrights should submit one act or a collection of short scenes no longer than twenty pages following Samuel French or the Dramatists Guild suggested formatting. Submissions should include name of creator(s), contact information, and a short biography on the cover page. For more complete guideline information, please visit Obsidian at www.obsidianlit.org. Allow three to four months for a response. We deeply appreciate writers and artists who subscribe to the journal as well as submit their work for publication. Distributed domestically and internationally, current issues of Obsidian are available on- line and in print for $15 (single) and $25 (double). Subscriptions are available for one year at $25 (individual) or $50 (institution), two years at $45 (individual) or $90 (institution), or three years at $65 (individual) or $130 (institution). Overseas subscribers please add $15 per year for shipping. All donations and gifts to the journal are tax deductible. Friends ($30), Supporters ($50), Patrons ($300), Benefactors ($500), and Publishers ($1,000) will receive special acknowledgement in future issues. A donation of $300 or more makes the donor a lifetime subscriber and a partner in publishing Obsidian. To sub- scribe, contact Obsidian, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4241, Normal, IL 61790-4241 Phone: (309) 438-7165, Fax: (309) 438-5414, Email: [email protected], or visit www. obsidianlit.org. Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is a peer-reviewed journal published twice yearly (spring and fall) by the Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois and a 501(c)(3) rec- ognized organization. © 2015 Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, all rights reserved. CONTENTS Acknowledgments • ix Jeffery Renard Allen Portrait • 1 Jeffery Renard Allen: An Introduction • 3 Reggie Scott Young & Dana A. Williams Jeffery Boulevard: 15 Choruses for Jeffery Renard Allen • 11 Aldon Lynn Nielsen From “Black Vonnegut” to Pan African Bard: A Discussion • 27 Reggie Scott Young & Jeffery Renard Allen Violence, Fragmentation & Framing in Jeffery Renard Allen’s Rails Under My Back • 47 Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris The Red Stain of Love & Betrayal in Rails Under My Back • 59 Pamela R. Fletcher “Toilet Training” (from Holding Pattern) • 67 Jeffery Renard Allen The Secrets of Cosmo & His Creator • 87 Garrett Butler Battling the Ancestors in Jeffery Renard Allen’s Holding Pattern • 95 Jennifer Jordan “Days” • 111 Jeffery Renard Allen Jeffery Renard Allen’s Stellar Places • 113 Terese Svoboda On Reading Jeffery Renard Allen’s “Days” • 119 Lucy Biederman To Wander Is to See: A Response to Jeffery Renard Allen’s “Rails: Things You See” • 123 Melissa Jenks Unchanging Hand • 127 Jeffery Renard Allen The Marriage Stool Doesn’t Weigh Much, Nor Does the Altar, Nor Does the Ladder, Nor Does the Gate • 130 Jeffery Renard Allen The Gift • 134 Jeffery Renard Allen Poet • 137 Sterling D. Plumpp The Engine of Dreaming • 139 Rachel Eliza Griffiths Whenever Hemingway Hums Nigger • 141 Joshua Bennett upon this plot • 142 Evie Shockley When time moves in • 145 Kitso Kgaboesele Chicken Wire • 147 David Mills By Way of Marriage • 149 David Mills Mama’s Comb • 151 Dianca London Potts Reign • 153 Kim Coleman Foote Ode to the Confederate Walking: March 30, 2014 • 155 Ed Pavlić After Coltrane • 157 Cynthia Dewi Oka Tonight We Drink Whiskey & Dive • 159 Cynthia Dewi Oka How they carried their hands past pounding • 161 Duriel E. Harris “Jeffery’s Story” • 163 Jeffery Renard Allen Jeffery Allen’s Grace • 165 René Steinke The Big Kid in the Last Row • 171 Lore Segal Open Letter to Jeff Allen • 173 Arthur Flowers Artifacts I • 177 Entering Song of the Shank • 197 Ethan Nosowsky Chapter One, Song of the Shank (from the original manuscript) • 201 Jeffery Renard Allen Artifacts II • 217 Lusona • 225 Jeffery Renard Allen “From a Hidden Seam in the Blackness”: Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank • 227 Michael A. Antonucci Inventing Truth: Facts, Fiction & Slavery in Song of the Shank • 235 Horace A. Porter Mapping the Son(g)’s Echo: Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen • 249 Thadious M. Davis Reading the Blind & Blacking the Beyond: African American Fiction & Influence-Theory in the Twenty-First Century • 265 Jeffery Renard Allen Broken Narrative • 275 Jeffery Renard Allen Contributors • 279 Permissions • 286 Calls for Submissions • 287 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to the numerous people whose support has helped make possible the continuation of Obsidian’s legacy at Illinois State University. Particular thanks to Janet Krejci, Vice President for Academic Af- fairs and Provost; John Bauer, Interim Associate Vice President for Re- search; Gregory Simpson, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and Christopher De Santis, Chair of the Department of English Studies, for valuing Obsidian’s
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