Author Archives: Khalifa Muhammad

Michael H. Kater, Professor of History at York University, Toronto, gives a short history of Jazz in Weimar Germany. He writes, “American jazz was imported into Germany in the early 1920s” (145). However, “[T]he great majority of German musicians still found jazz very difficult to master”, which is why “Americans and a few Englishmen… cameContinue reading “E-Portfolio #6”

“Singing the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Translation, and Diasporic Blues” is the sixth chapter of the book The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany, written by Jonathan O. Wipplinger, by Assistant Professor of German at the  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The book is a history of the influence of Jazz in WeimarContinue reading “E-Porfolio #5”

Throughout Passing, there is a theme of classification, how classificiation affects people, and how people subvert classifications. In the novella, there are two classifications that the characters: Claire Kendry and Irene Redfield subvert, the Black race and the White race. Nella Larson was familiar with classification, she was a librarian. As a librarian, she understoodContinue reading “E-Portfolio #4”

Donald E. Handy and Heather K. Hardy, in their article “Love, Death and War: Metaphorical Interaction in Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’”, interpret the dialogue between the two unnamed characters, “The American” and “The Girl”, in  Hemingway short story “Hills Like White Elephants”. They argue, that the dialogue is based upon the “cultural metaphor…called ARGUMENTContinue reading “E-Portfolio #3”

Language is clay to poets. Poets take the unworked clay and fashion it to their design. The late Professor of Southern Methodist  University, Laurence Perrine, argues that Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem. “Miniver Cheevy” is an exemplar of how poets fashion language to express themselves.  Perrine analyzes the Poem, stanza by stanza, for poetic devices andContinue reading “E-Portfolio #2”

My name is Khalifa Muhammad. I am southern on my mothers side is northern on my father’s side is from New York. I enjoy reading non-fiction as well as novels. In particular I enjoy science fiction, historical fiction, and poetry. I have recently finished reading the novel Dune and am currently reading Invisible Man byContinue reading “About Me”