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The Anatomy of Blackness
2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and literary texts, Curran shows how naturalists and philosophes drew from travel literature to discuss the perceived problem of human blackness within the nascent human sciences, describes how a number of now-forgotten anatomists revolutionized the era's understanding of black Africans, and charts the shift of the slavery debate from the moral, mercantile, and theological realms toward that of the \"black body\" itself. In tracing this evolution, he shows how blackness changed from a mere descriptor in earlier periods into a thing to be measured, dissected, handled, and often brutalized. Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves.
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The black avenger in Atlantic culture
\"The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture explores a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915, a symbolic date marking one end of a regularly renewed representational tradition. In its long ranging analysis, Black Avengers offers the tools to analyze a profusion of heroes in popular imagination of the present day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Precarious Passages
Precarious Passages unites literature written by members of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as simply \"African American,\" \"Black Canadian,\" \"Black British,\" or \"postcolonial African Caribbean,\" this book takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustains a sense of a wider African diasporic community in the Western world.
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Conscripts of migration : neoliberal globalization, nationalism, and the literature of new African diasporas
\"In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on immigration, whether liberal or conservative, popular or scholarly, leaves out the history in which the global North helped create outward migration in the global South. From histories of racial capitalism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and imperialism to contemporary neoliberal globalization and the resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, countries in the global North continue to devastate and destabilize the global South. Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, in different ways, police the effects of their own global policies at their borders.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The Earliest African American Literatures
With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York
Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware
that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the
stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain
ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and
educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight
biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of
literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to
1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the
presence of black Africans in this early period. Brief
introductions preceding each text provide historical context and
genre-specific interpretive prompts to foreground their
significance. Included here are transcriptions from manuscript
sources and colonial newspapers as well as forgotten texts. The
Earliest African American Literatures will change the way that
students and scholars conceive of early American literature and the
role of black Africans in the formation of that literature.
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Directions home : approaches to African-Canadian literature
\"The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature. Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson. With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.\" --Publisher's description.
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Directions Home
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home , Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature.
Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson.
With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.
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Geography and the political imaginary in the novels of Toni Morrison
This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued. Herman Beavers closely examines politics of scale and contentious politics in order to discern Morrison's larger intent of revealing the deep structure of power relations in black communities that will enable them to fashion counterhegemonic projects. The volume explores how Morrison stages her ruminations on the political imaginary in neighborhoods or small towns; rooms, houses or streets. Beavers argues that these spatial and domestic geographies are sites where the management of traumatic injury is integral to establishing a sense of place, proposing these?tight spaces? as sites where narratives are produced and contested; sites of inscription and erasure, utterance and silence.
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Abolition Time
How Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions
and redefine literary scholarship Abolition Time
is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through
literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory,
critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation
with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A.
Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral
epistemologies embedded in language and poetics.
Goldberg examines poetry, drama, and novels from the nineteenth
century through the twenty-first-such as William Wells Brown's
The Escape, Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel, Toni
Morrison's A Mercy, and Claudia Rankine's
Citizen -to consider literature and literary scholarship's
roles in shaping societal paradigms. Focusing on how Black Atlantic
literature disrupts the grammar of law and order, they show how
these texts propose nonlinear theories of time that imagine a queer
relationality characterized by care rather than inheritance,
property, or biology.
Abolition Time offers a framework for thinking
critically about what is meant by the term justice in the
broadest and deepest sense, using close reading to inform the
question of abolishing prisons or the police and to think seriously
about the most fundamental questions at the heart of the
abolitionist movement.
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