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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille Marriage , like family , has been a contested term in African American historical, sociological, and cultural studies. This essay surveys and interrogates the dominant literature on black intimacy, coupling, and family life in the slave community from the publication of E. Franklin...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 178–201.
Published: 01 December 2024
... mobilizes Butler’s theory of the unstable, unknowable self as a resource for humanitarian ethics. [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 African literature cosmopolitan ethics humanitarianism NGOs (nongovernmental...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 32–47.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., and public intellectuals claimed a proprietary interest in African American literature and culture, which they often asserted with possessive pronouns: my, mine, and ours or the doubly possessive construction our own.4 Black feminist...
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 148–162.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Lewis R. Gordon Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Aidoo Ama Ata . “ Literature, Feminism, and the African Woman Today .” Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism: Writings on Black Women . Ed...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 72–99.
Published: 01 July 1992
... commonplace as Africans attempted to get control of their own economies. 21 See Lazarus for an account of the significance of these ceremonies of independence in the popular understanding of national history, especially as re-presented in African literature. In drawing attention to the ceremony itself...
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 139–170.
Published: 01 November 1991
...: The Politics of Language in African Literature . London : Heinemann , 1986 . Omvedt Gail . “ Devdasi [sic] Custom and the Fight Against It .” Manushi 19 ( 1983 ). Peña Guillermo Gomez . Border Notebook . 1990 . Pietsch Carl . “ Three Worlds. . . .  ” Comparative Studies...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 151–183.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of African Literature.” Research in African Literatures 23.1 (Spring 1992): 65–72. Melas, Natalie. “Humanity/Humanities: Decolonization and the Poetics of Relation.” Topoi 18.1 (1999): 13–28...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 132–156.
Published: 01 September 2024
...’ .” NWSA Journal 1 . 1 ( 1988 ): 32 – 36 . Dayan Joan . “ Paul Gilroy’s Slaves, Ships, and Routes: The Middle Passage as Metaphor .” Research in African Literatures 27 . 4 ( 1996 ): 7 – 14 . Di Maio Alessandra . “ The Black Mediterranean: A View from Sicily .” Transitions 132...
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differences (1995) 7 (1): 165–187.
Published: 01 April 1995
...: Fanon, Nationalism, and the Problematic of Representation in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse .” Research in African Literatures 24 ( 1993 ): 69 – 98 . Lionnet Françoise . “ Feminisms and Universalisms: ‘Universal Rights' and the Legal Debate Around the Practice of Female Excision...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Chevalier Haakon . New York : Grove , 1992 . Gafaïti Hafid . “ Power, Censorship, and the Press: The Case of Postcolonial Algeria .” Research in African Literatures 30 . 3 ( 1999 ): 51 – 61 . Heidegger Martin . Parmenides . Trans. Schuwer André Rojcewicz Richard...
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 52–108.
Published: 01 November 1990
... Françoise . “ On Hannah Arendt .” Unpublished ms. Dathorne O. R. African Literature in the Twentieth Century . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1974 . de Lauretis Teresa . Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1984 . de Lauretis Teresa...
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 167–176.
Published: 01 December 2006
... of three early feminist texts in African American literature: Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Bird s (Anchor, 1980); and Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960 (Doubleday, 1987). She also edited Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers (Doubleday, 1991). Her current work, The Other...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 72–102.
Published: 01 September 2007
... . Durham, nc: Duke up, 1997 . Berlin, Ira. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South . New York: New Press, 1974 . Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh. The Roots of African American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities . New York: St. Martin's, 1997 . The Black...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 6–20.
Published: 01 September 2018
... a low-status mother and focus on intersections of race, class, gender in Afro-American women’s literature, in fact in any literature written by people of color?” (57). She went on to say that, because of a growing interest in African American women’s literature, she was becoming an academic mother...
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differences (2004) 15 (3): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., 1998 . Kahn, Jonathan. “Getting the Numbers Right: Statistical Mischief and Racial Profiling in Heart Failure Research.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46.4 ( 2003 ): 473 -83. Kaiser, Jocelyn. “African-American Population Biobank Proposed.” Science 300 ( 2003 ): 1485 . Kaplan...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... advancement for the black community are both unrealistic and stigmatizing to blacks who do not marry. As Lehnhardt explains, such arguments “vastly overstate the economic benefits of marriage to African Americans in particular” and especially to low-income black families (1355). Indeed, poor families often...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille The introduction to this special issue of difference s uses the examples of Antoney and Isabella, the first Africans to marry in the new world, and Dred and Harriet Scott, slaves whose legal marriage is at the heart of arguably the most infamous Supreme Court decision of all time...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 196–203.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Mignon R. Moore In Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality , Katherine Franke asks what kind of freedom and what kind of equality the capacity to marry mobilizes. She explores this question comparatively through, on the one hand, the case of African Americans after slavery and, on the other...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 130–137.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of Colonial Discourse .” The Location of Culture . London : Routledge , 2004 . 85 – 92 . Gates Henry Louis . The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism . New York : Oxford UP , 1989 . Guilbert Serge . How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract...
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differences (1995) 7 (1): 15–47.
Published: 01 April 1995
... tightly coiled up together: modern African literature - and here I follow Appiah's no doubt deliberate 43 use of the universalizing singular-is always already entangled with European modernity, including the abstract univerals of the Enlightenment. More telling still is Appiah's repeated demonstration...