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Cross-Genre Modes in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh
No full textBook Review: South Asian Racialization and Belonging After 9/11: Masks of Threat: Edited by Aparajita De
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Postcolonial Comics and Graphic Novels: A Review Essay
No full textMark McKinney, Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics. Leuven UP, 2021. Paperback. 34.95
Masters, Lesley, Philani Mthembu, and Jo-Ansie Van Wyk, eds. South African Foreign Policy Review: Ramaphosa and a New Dawn for South African Foreign Policy. Vol. 4.
No full textReview of: Masters, Lesley, Philani Mthembu, and Jo Ansie Van Wyk, eds. South African Foreign Policy Review: Ramaphosa and a New Dawn for South African Foreign Policy. Vol. 4. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 2022
Zayani, Mohamed, ed. A Fledgling Democracy: Tunisia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings.
No full textZayani, Mohamed, ed. A Fledgling Democracy: Tunisia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023
Migration without Movement: Arrival, Immobility, and Edo Identity Formation
No full textDiscourses of migration often figure the migrant and those who stay behind as separate identities marked by locational differences. However, what is often the case is that movement is inextricable from immobility, and those who stay behind also perform culturally specific forms of migration. This possibility of migration without mobility and movement without migration is central to Sudabeh Mortezai’s 2018 Joy. Throughout the film, the physical and psychological immobility of Edo Women migrants captures viewers within the constructive structures of irregular migration. Looking closely at the film’s presentation of the relation between those who migrate and those who stay behind, this paper examines the manners through which the migrant body remains tethered to the country of departure and the migration of others. To do this, I engage the Nigerian concept of arrival, where one is said to have “arrived” when a family member travels to Europe. As the film demonstrates, and as I will explore, the migration process produces a bodily split that renders the migrant legible for migration and illegible for mobility while also securing the societal mobility of those left behind.
The Erotic Black Diaspora: From Your Hands to Mine
No full text“The Erotic Black Diaspora: From Your Hands to Mine” is a theoretical exploration of how the erotic informs Black feminist politics, kinship, love, and spirituality throughout the African diaspora. Through an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, history, African and African diaspora studies, women’s and gender studies, and Black queer studies, as well as archival research, a close reading of letters sent to Black feminist, writer, and poet Audre Lorde reveals how the erotic functions within Black feminist spaces, particularly in the late 1970s–mid 1980s.
In using Audre Lorde’s definition of the erotic, as she defines it in “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” this paper argues that the Erotic Black Diaspora is a way of reading Black feminist love, language, and action. Recognizing the diversity within Afro-diasporic experiences, the Erotic Black Diaspora privileges the erotic (platonic and/or romantic) feelings and expressions across continents cultivated between same-sex-loving and queer individuals throughout the African diaspora. Positioning Black feminist archives, in particular correspondence sent between Black feminist foremothers, as a counter-archive to institutions of oppression informs one’s understanding of the ethics of Black feminist politics, love, spirituality, and community building