Louisa Olufsen Layne

• Layne, Louisa Olufsen (2026). From Jazz to Dub Poetry: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Literary Problem Space of Black Music. Callaloo. ISSN 0161-2492. 44(2), s. 173–191. doi: https:/muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/990596. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article, I argue that Linton Kwesi Johnson played an important role in constructing and conceptualizing a Black radical literary tradition characterized by taking inspiration from Black music. By self-consciously modeling Black British dub poetry in the 1970s on African American jazz poetry and by comparing dub poetry, jazz poetry, and other Black music-inspired literary genres, he conceptualizes how literature in the Black radical tradition explores Black music as a literary problem space. His work brings attention to the ways in which authors in the Black radical tradition have used Black music as starting point to ask a series of fundamental critical questions about the purpose and capacity of literature and "literarity." These acts of questioning have often been ahead of mainstream literary theory in thinking beyond New Criticism and other formalist paradigms. I further argue more generally that British Black music criticism in the 1970s and 80s, as exemplified by the now out-of-print magazine Black Music and Jazz Review where Johnson was a contributor, produced discourses on Black aesthetics that could add valuable perspectives to Black Studies and African Diaspora Studies today.

• Layne, Louisa Olufsen (2023). “Let us look at the immediate background of this young poet”: Langston Hughes and the Sociological Critique of Taste. African American Review. ISSN 1062-4783. doi: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903596. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Langston Hughes’s classic essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” is commonly read as a defense of Black racial pride. I argue that it simultaneously performs a subtle but radical sociological critique of the Kantian paradigm of disinterested taste. “The Negro Artist and Racial Mountain” should therefore be read as a proto-sociology of literature that highlights the blind spot in regard to race often found in Bourdieusian frameworks. Hughes’s work can also provide the sociology of literature today with alternative models for thinking about the entanglement of taste, class, and power, and for conceptualizing aesthetic autonomy.

• Layne, Louisa Olufsen (2019). Kamau Brathwaites karibiske estetikk: Perseptuelle modeller som skrivemetode. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. 36(3-4), s. 36–58. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Layne, Louisa Olufsen (2018). Sound Systems and Other Systems: The Policing of Urban Aesthetic Spaces in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Planned Violence. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319913872. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91388-9_9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Vold, Tonje; Layne, Louisa Olufsen; Bostadløkken, Ida Pallin & Abdi, Mohamed (2022). Aktivistisk klassiker. bell hooks. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Haugen, Marius Warholm; Kaasa, Janicke S.; Layne, Louisa Olufsen; Solum, Kristina & Vold, Tonje (2022). Hva er verdenslitteratur? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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