... The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas dominate popular conceptions of slavery. In the Indian Ocean there were many different types of slavery that confound and enrich understanding of slavery as a global phenomenon and process. This chapter asks how the study of Indian Ocean...

... this reading of “Pegasus,” the chapter shows multilayered ways in which Japanese-language writing by Koreans takes place in the interstices of national literature and is marked by ambivalence that confounds the desire for a bounded national literature.  colonial abject parody national literature ...

... This chapter develops the concept of “properly historical populations” around residents’ subversion of the street theater intended to educate them about AIDS. Residents, by following the public health script to the letter, bring to light the contradictions that occasioned to play, confounding...

... and its importance for art-workers-cum-artists such as Rhonda Unurupa Dick. Dick’s award-winning landscape portraiture confounds distinctions between subject and object, human and nature, literacy and the photograph. Her work reveals how, contra to expectation, tradition is not at risk from...

... that undermines the prevailing social order by confounding its representational logics. As a concept, Black grotesquerie reconfigures the terms of contemporary black struggle by rendering the boundary between (black) living and (black) dying porous and negotiable. As an expressive practice, it infuses...

... that confounded the conventional image of the citizen-subject by confronting civic virtue with popular resistance to bourgeois prescription, which appears not as a natural quality of the gente decente (decent people) but as a form of class privilege. Moreover, these satires represented working-class men...

..., they certainly confound conventional notions of left/right politics—cultural and otherwise—and in that sense present a serious challenge to the critical scholarship of music. UNESCO cultural policy music and politics musical heritage Latin American music ...

... such as Rhonda Unurupa Dick. Dick’s award-winning landscape portraiture confounds distinctions between subject and object, human and nature, literacy and the photograph. Her work reveals how, contra to expectation, tradition is not at risk from the technological revolution. Rather, the indexical nature...

... and the colonies and states that tried to control them. mobility diaspora pilgrimage hajj The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas dominate popular conceptions of slavery. In the Indian Ocean there were many different types of slavery that confound and enrich understanding of slavery...

... society organizations have come to operate as synergistic opportunities for development of all sorts. While these newly configured relationships are usually not the straightforward “win-win” that many advocates claim, they certainly confound conventional notions of left/right politics—cultural...