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Travel and the Pan African Imagination

Author : Tracy Keith Flemming
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498582551

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Travel and the Pan African Imagination by Tracy Keith Flemming Pdf

Travel and the Pan African Imagination explores the African Atlantic world as a productive theater or space where modernity, racialized dominance, and racialized resistance took form. The book stresses the importance of placing three Atlantic figures—the Charleston, South Carolina-based armed resistance leader Denmark Vesey; the West African emigration advocate Edward Wilmot Blyden; and the Christian missionary and teacher in Liberia as well as the United States, Alexander Crummell—within an Atlantic context and as African world community figures between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The book also examines the religious origins of Black Power ideology and modern Pan Africanism as products of the intense dialogue within the African world community about concepts of modernity, progress, and civilization. Tracy Keith Flemming identifies how travel and social mobility led to the generation of an ever more complex and dynamic Atlantic world and of a fluid and adaptive African world community imagination for those figures who were forced to operate within and against a racially framed universe. The vexing social position and symbolic figure of “the African” was central to the dilemmas facing the racialized imagination of African world community figures and the discipline of Africology.

Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration

Author : Lori Celaya,Sonja Stephenson Watson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793648778

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Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration by Lori Celaya,Sonja Stephenson Watson Pdf

Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects through the lenses of cultural studies, critical race theory, narrative theory, and border studies. These narratives cover the United States, the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula and illustrate a shared diasporic experience across the Atlantic. Through a transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational lens, this volume brings together essays on literature, film, and music from disparate geographic areas: Spain, Cuba and Jamaica, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Colombia. Throughout the volume, the contributors explore intertextual transatlantic dialogues, and migratory experiences of diasporic subjects and queer subjectivities. The chapters also examine the use of language to preserve Latinx culture, colonial and Spanish cultural exchanges, border identities, and race, gender, identity, and cultural production. In turn, these diasporic experiences result from transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational phenomena that converge in a globalized society and aid in questioning the artificial boundaries of nation states.

Assembly Codes

Author : Matthew Hockenberry,Nicole Starosielski,Susan Zieger
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478013037

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Assembly Codes by Matthew Hockenberry,Nicole Starosielski,Susan Zieger Pdf

The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logistics—the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information—has substantially impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media. At the same time, physical media, such as paperwork, along with media technologies ranging from phone systems to software are central to the operations of logistics. The contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the environmental impact of the creation, distribution, and sale of vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the specific points of contact, dependence, and friction between media and logistics, Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from the other. Contributors Ebony Coletu, Kay Dickinson, Stefano Harney, Matthew Hockenberry, Tung-Hui Hu, Shannon Mattern, Fred Moten, Michael Palm, Ned Rossiter, Nicole Starosielski, Liam Cole Young, Susan Zieger

Travelling While Black

Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787385238

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Travelling While Black by Nanjala Nyabola Pdf

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

The Pan American Imagination

Author : Stephen M. Park
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813936673

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The Pan American Imagination by Stephen M. Park Pdf

In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American modernists who challenged the body of knowledge being produced about Latin America, crossing the disciplinary boundaries of academia as well as the formal boundaries of artistic expression—from literary texts and travel writing to photography, painting, and dance. Park invests in an interdisciplinary approach, which he frames as a politically resistant intellectual practice, using it not only to examine the historical phenomenon of Pan Americanism but also to explore the implications for current transnational scholarship.

Geographies of Liberation

Author : Alex Lubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469612881

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Geographies of Liberation by Alex Lubin Pdf

Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary

Emirs in London

Author : Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253059130

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Emirs in London by Moses E. Ochonu Pdf

Emirs in London recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience to the Northern Nigerian people. Moses E. Ochonu shows how rather than simply serving as puppets and mouthpieces of the British Empire, these aristocrats leveraged their travel to the heart of the empire to reinforce their positions as imperial cultural brokers, and to translate and domesticate imperial modernity in a predominantly Muslim society. Emirs in London explores how, through their experiences visiting the heart of the British Empire, Northern Nigerian aristocrats were enabled to define themselves within the framework of the empire. In doing so, the book reveals a unique colonial sensibility that complements rather than contradicts the traditional perspectives of less privileged Africans toward colonialism. Emirs in London was named in the Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2022 list.

Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations

Author : Toyin Falola,Fallou Ngom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135212896

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Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations by Toyin Falola,Fallou Ngom Pdf

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends facts and fiction has rendered perceptions of Africa, its cultures, societies, customs, and conflicts often superficial and deficient in the popular Western consciousness. The book brings eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to sort out the persistent fictionalization of Africa, from facts pertaining to the genesis of powerful cultural, political or religious icons, the historical and cultural significance of "intriguing" customs (such as tribal marks), gender relations, causes of conflicts and African responses, and creative imaginations in contemporary African films, fiction and literature, among others.

The African American Sonnet

Author : Timo Mueller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496817860

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The African American Sonnet by Timo Mueller Pdf

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and Rita Dove all wrote sonnets. Based on extensive archival research, The African American Sonnet: A Literary History traces this forgotten tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Timo Müller uses sonnets to open up fresh perspectives on African American literary history. He examines the struggle over the legacy of the Civil War, the trajectories of Harlem Renaissance protest, the tensions between folk art and transnational perspectives in the thirties, the vernacular modernism of the postwar period, the cultural nationalism of the Black Arts movement, and disruptive strategies of recent experimental poetry. In this book, Müller examines the inventive strategies African American poets devised to occupy and reshape a form overwhelmingly associated with Europe. In the tightly circumscribed space of sonnets, these poets mounted evocative challenges to the discursive and material boundaries they confronted.

Exporting American Dreams

Author : Mary L. Dudziak
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195329018

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Exporting American Dreams by Mary L. Dudziak Pdf

The story of Thurgood Marshall's journey to Africa in 1969 to help Kenyan independence leaders write their constitution is told in an intriguing work that recounts how his involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his belief in progress by legal means.

Freedom Beyond Confinement

Author : Michael Ra-Shon Hall
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781949979718

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Freedom Beyond Confinement by Michael Ra-Shon Hall Pdf

Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particularly of writers of literary fiction and nonfiction. Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, the book details the intimate connection between travel and imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present. Analysing a range of sources from the black press and periodicals to literary fiction and nonfiction, the book charts the development of critical representation of travel from the foundational press and periodicals which offered African Americans crucial information on travel precautions and possibilities (notably during the era of Jim Crow) to the woefully understudied literary fiction that would later provide some of the most compelling and lasting portrayals of the freedoms and constraints African Americans associated with travel. Travel experiences (often challenging and vexed) provided the raw data with which writers produced images and ideas meaningful as they learned to navigate, negotiate and even challenge racialized and gendered impediments to their mobility. In their writings African Americans worked to realize a vision and state of freedom informed by those often difficult experiences of mobility. In telling this story, the book hopes to center literary fiction in studies of travel where fiction has largely remained absent.

Imagining Southern Spaces

Author : Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110692600

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Imagining Southern Spaces by Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar Pdf

Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.

Walter White

Author : Kenneth Robert Janken
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807857807

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Walter White by Kenneth Robert Janken Pdf

Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to invest

Sites of Slavery

Author : Salamishah Tillet
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352617

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Sites of Slavery by Salamishah Tillet Pdf

In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.

Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds

Author : Diana Brydon,Peter Forsgren,Gonlüg Fur
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004347601

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Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds by Diana Brydon,Peter Forsgren,Gonlüg Fur Pdf

Brydon, Forsgren, and Fur’s edited collection, Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds, demonstrates the productivity of reading for concurrences in studying archives, voices, and history in colonial and postcolonial contexts. This multidisciplinary volume situates Nordic colonial practices within transworld contexts.