... Four contemporary thinkers from different disciplines and geographies come together around the theme of Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation . Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how...

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... the recent literature on melancholy and mourning, literature that examines the political implications of vulnerability and the recognition of historical losses. Critically engaging the discourses on melancholy, the introduction highlights black literature, music, and film as practices that put forth...

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... John H. Bracey The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James Literature Translation ...

... not as impediments but as incitements where Black futurist avatars are inspired to repurpose oppression and re-create the world anew. Black literature Toni Morrison frican American novels Afro-futurism Black sci-fi ...

... The Black Jacobins Toussaint Louvertur e C. L. R. Jame s, Literatur e Translation ...

... with The Black Jacobins and the way that the text has sustained an enduring fascination with Toussaint Louverture. The author discusses the Marxist historiography at the heart of the text, and also James’s indebtedness to English literature. His conclusions explore the continued resonance of James’s central...

..., the Lost Generation, and authors associated with Black Humor. He points to how a general fascination with the United States in China at the time helped reinforce this fascination with American literature, while also pointing to what he perceives to be American literature's limitations, in that the US has...

... Chapter 3 draws on the oral archive of Nder, psychoanalysis, and the black feminist tradition to reread perhaps the best-known suicide in Francophone African cinema and literature: that of Diouana Gomis, the protagonist of Ousmane Sembène’s film La Noire de . . . / Black Girl (1966...

... with Toussaint Louverture. The author discusses the Marxist historiography at the heart of the text, and also James’s indebtedness to English literature. His conclusions explore the continued resonance of James’s central thesis in a contemporary political frame. The Black Jacobins Toussaint Louvertur...

... The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James Literature Translation ...

... The introduction examines the language and literature around race and enslavement in the Middle East and argues that the history of enslavement and race in Iran has not been adequately studied or taken seriously. The introduction examines archival practices around enslavement within and outside...

... Chapter 4 concerns the coalescence of literary and photographic ghosting. It focuses on iterations of ethereal haunting in literature, imbued with a hyper-dependence on black women’s “resurrecting” qualities. Mystics, preachers, and god figures maintain the black diasporic space between...