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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of inquiry into them, the storm is a situated Horn of Africa contribution to the theorization of the Indian Ocean as monsoonal archipelago. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 The Africa Institute 2024 Horn of Africa African literature African epistemologies climate coloniality monsoons...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 100–105.
Published: 01 May 2024
... transcends many categories. He is referred to as an African writer, a Black British writer, an Indian Ocean writer, an Afropolitan writer, a World Literature writer, and a postcolonial writer, among others. For example, Google refers to him as both a Tanzanian-British writer and a Tanzanian-born British...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 48–57.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Torabully. ‘Coolies’ and Corals, or Living in Transarchipelagic Worlds .” Journal of the African Literature Association 11 , no. 1 ( 2017 ): 112 – 19 . Glissant Édouard . Traité du tout-monde . Paris : Gallimard , 1997 . Knowlton Nancy . Citizens of the Sea: Wondrous Creatures...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 68–79.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and Martínez-San Miguel Yolanda , 365 – 82 . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2020 . Bastos Maria-Benedita . “ Utopia in Angolan and Mozambican Literature: Material Futures, Dialectical Dances .” In Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries , edited by Bethencourt...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 22–34.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Meghan Gorman-DaRif Abstract In his 1992 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Derek Walcott imagines the broken vase and the subsequent reassemblage of its “African and Asiatic” fragments as a metaphor for Caribbean art forms, especially poetry. His vision of the particular archipelagic form of art...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 November 2023
... disillusionment with African postcolonial regimes he characterized as dependent, dictatorial, and corrupt. He discerned little progress in these territories, other than “a minimum of readaptation, a few reforms at the top, a flag waving: and down there at the bottom an undivided mass, still living in the middle...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 3–12.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a central heuristic focus for five original essays that range across texts and contexts through the embrace of interpretive conjecturality. 14 Three lines of inquiry have thereby emerged. The specificities of the African Indian Ocean littoral, from Kenya to Mozambique, especially its permeability...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 75–91.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., but commence immediately to overthrow by force this most vicious colonialist government. I have no doubt that we shall win, and that the sufferings of the African shall come to an end. 2 Wielding machetes, automatic rifles, and handguns, the aroused segments of the population obeyed by attacking...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 46–59.
Published: 01 November 2023
... examines how race shaped popular conversations on Mauritian political independence through two areas of analysis. The first is a discussion of Mauricianisme, a mid-century project of building a multiracial Mauritian political identity that could accommodate and integrate its African and Asian components...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 2–21.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as human interconnections and racial structures, into conversation. Aristide Corroller Madagascar Mauritius (Île de France) Tamatave Fort Dauphin Cape Town Editors’ Note Pier M. Larson (1961–2020) was Professor of African History at Johns Hopkins University. He was the author of Ocean...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 119–136.
Published: 01 May 2023
... there. I had chosen the art subjects, which meant history, geography, and English literature. So, in my mind, at that time, the choice was largely between history and geography. But when it came to history, the teacher was terrible because, for him, at that time, African history was nonexistent—and he...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 26–45.
Published: 01 November 2023
... provided free shelter as part of a weekly rickshaw rental. Yet this apparent generosity was largely an effect of the colonial regime of racial segregation. Africans were only supposed to live in rural reserves that were set aside as their “natural habitat” after the best farmlands were taken by white...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 11–21.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of living for people of African and Malagasy descent. It was at this time that the movement and debate around reparations started. Though this movement was in a sense in a minority, huge institutional influences (e.g., official religion, plantocracy, etc.) were mobilized in the 1960s and 1970s to counter...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 85–99.
Published: 01 May 2024
... started to gather, then welded to the coral, and finally gave life to a great organic colony. 29 It was Derek Walcott who imparted to us this notion before passing away in 2017. The separation of Black Africans from their land and the tragedy of the many African bodies thrown into the Atlantic sea...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the claims of Indian-African solidarity in a post-Bandung world by reading across a range of fiction and non-fiction, cast as historical evidence. 32 This despite the fact, as she writes, that “few historians I have met are willing to concede that novels are right and proper sources from which they can...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of recognizing water in all its atmospheric states as a connector between African and Asian landmasses; as a releaser of creolized ways of life that are repressed by nationalist, nativist, and casteist narratives; and as a generator of alegropolitics, or the politics of embodied joy, through which to resist...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... A version of the article was presented at the African Studies seminar at Harvard, November 6, 2014, and benefited from the critical insights of Jean and John Comaroff as well as Jacob Olopuna and other participants. I am grateful to all parties for their invitations and provocations, to five thoughtful...
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