... with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which Africa is the site both of diaspora and of homeland. More important, it shows that Patel’s...

..., and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer” and the challenge of retelling stories of postcolonial African diaspora to Italy...

... migritude migration imperialism global literature diaspora Works Cited Adesanmi Pius . 2005 . “ Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction .” Modern Fiction Studies 51 , no. 4 : 958 – 75 . Barron Laignee . 2018 . “ A Record 68.5 Million...

..., and the Literature of New African Diasporas . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . Gilroy Paul . 1993 . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Gordon Avery . 1997 . Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination...

... in the 1970s, the term has seen a resurgence across disciplinary divides. J. T. Roane and Justin Hosbey bring together many of these disparate strands to identify the methodologies of contemporary Black ecology. On the one hand, they write, Black communities . . . in the wider African Diaspora are most...

..., the overwhelmingly African American Ninth Ward —​is called the Bywater, and it has long been racially mixed. Around the corner from my house and a few blocks down the street was a dry cleaner where, for decades, Fats Domino regularly dropped off his stage wear, and a few blocks farther down that same street...

...: Neolib- eral Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Dia- sporas (2019). He has served as assistant professor of English and Afri- cana studies at Jackson State University and James Madison University. He has published widely in postcolonial and diaspora studies on the literature...

... and Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Madera, Judith. 2015. Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Meyers, Natasha. 2015. Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter. Durham, NC...

.... Olson, Gary A., and John W. Presley. The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders. Boulder: Paradigm, 2009. Pinn, Anthony B., and Benjamín Valentín, eds. Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture...

... B. S. 2000 . “Who Is a Refugee? ” In International Refugee Law: A Reader , edited by Chimni B. S. , 1 – 81 . London : Sage . Ette Ottman . 2017 . “ Khal Torabully. ‘Coolies’ and Corals, or Living in Transar-chipelagic Worlds .” Journal of the African Literature Association...

... the topic of masochistic desire among African-American women especially difficult to broach. Hence Mae Henderson sets up a "radical opposition" (300) between The Story of O and Sherley Ann William's Dessa Rose. Indicting Reage's text for "white female complicity with the patriarchy" (291), Henderson...

... (Crossroads Modernism) and Brent Hayes-Edwards (The Practice of Diaspora) that theorize African- American and transatlantic modernist traditions. However, there is also the sense that Bad Modernisms’ expansion of modernist studies remains a disciplinarily conservative project: leveling...

... the Caribbean, so your story is different from a typical African American one. Or is it? Carby Well, I came in the early 1980s with different concepts about racialization and diaspora. My critique of African American studies as a field was that it was parochial...

... Orleans East .” Journal of American History 94 : 770 – 79 . Li Wei . 2008 . “ Surviving Katrina and Its Aftermath: Evacuation and Community Mobilization by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans .” Journal of Cultural Geography 25 : 263 – 86 . NASA (National Aeronautics...

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

... Works Cited Adesanmi Pius . 2005 . “ Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction .” Modern Fiction Studies 51 , no. 4 : 958 – 75 . Ahmed Sara . 2000 . Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality . London : Routledge . Balibar...

... as a kind of heroic figure. While this stops short of a total endorsement, the passion for Reagan underscores a significant difference between Hosseini’s perspective and that of many Indian and African postcolonial writers from the generation of the 1970s and 80s. Other postcolonial writers might see...

... of the Jewish South African community, at one point lambasting them for selling off their family jewels and fur coats to Rose Interview 69 support Israel in the Six-Day War [1967], but having made no contri- bution to the Anti-Apartheid Defence Fund. Watson...

..., Optimism of the Will: A Reading of Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.” Research in African Literatures 18 , no. 2 : 137 – 74 . Lunn Eugene . 1984 . Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno . Berkeley : University of California...