M’Balia Thomas
List of John Benjamins publications in which M’Balia Thomas is involved.
Articles
2020 Rendering the untellable, tellable: The cooperative work of face in conversational storytelling Narrative Inquiry 30:2, pp. 364–380 | Article
Goffman’s concepts of face and face work, and his assertion that talk in face-to-face interaction is cooperative, are undertheorized and often critiqued. In an attempt to expand on these concepts, excerpts are analyzed from a single-teller narrative which evolves into a 13-minute conversational… read more
The recycling of Frankensteinian monstrosity in “Monster” Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Online-First Articles | Article
An underexamined feature of US rap music is its Gothic aesthetic, an aspect notably present in the 2010 rap hit, “Monster”. A trilogy of first-person narrative retellings through which Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Nicki Minaj restory Gothic tales of monstrous duality, “Monster” functions as an… read more