PinnedMatthew TeutschWhy I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian NationalismDuring graduate school, Chris Hedges took ethics classes with James Luther Adams, an American theologian who spent time in Germany during…·6 min read·Sep 1, 2022--13--13
Matthew TeutschRemembering the Atrocities of History in Olga Tokarczuk’sFlightsEver since I saw the translation of Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob on the shelf at my library, I…·5 min read·3 days ago----
Matthew TeutschThe Myth of PovertyMyths take on a life of their own, supplanting reality and facts within the psyche. Once a myth takes hold, it becomes difficult to…·6 min read·Apr 10, 2024--2--2
Matthew Teutsch“America happened!” The Impact of Media on Perceptions of SelfElizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Levy’s Queenie: Godmother of Harlem tells the story of Stephanie St. Clair, “a racketeer and a bootlegger”…·5 min read·Apr 7, 2024----
Matthew TeutschOur Role in the Relay of “Cosmic Composition”Writing about how their time in Washington D.C. and at Howard University drew to a close in the early 1940s, Pauli Murray reflected on all…·5 min read·Apr 5, 2024----
Matthew TeutschThe Most Important Twentieth-Century American NovelWhenever I look I look at a list of the most important twentieth century American novels and novelists, the same names pop up again and…·5 min read·Mar 31, 2024----
Matthew TeutschThe Voices That Carry Us Forward“And I wonder,” Angela Davis asked in a 2013 lecture at Birkbeck University in London, “will we ever truly recognize the collective subject…·6 min read·Mar 28, 2024--9--9
Matthew TeutschReading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…Over the past two posts, I have written some about the connections I see between Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1898) and Zora Neale…·5 min read·Mar 24, 2024----
Matthew TeutschReading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…In my previous post, I wrote about the symbolism of the parrot and birds in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and the mule in Zora Neale…·5 min read·Mar 22, 2024----
Matthew TeutschReading Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”…Over the past week, I reread Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in preparation…·5 min read·Mar 17, 2024----