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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Middle Passage"”.
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The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
<p>“The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women’s Literature” explores renderings of the Middle Passage in literature by African American and Caribbean writers. Departing from the premise that the term “Middle Passage” is insufficient where it concerns describing the massive …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
… originates with and is haunted by the waters of Middle Passage. However, beyond its traumatic associations with the slave trade, I also argue, following the aesthetic philosophy of Gaston Bachelard, that water provides the feature element of what I call the "material imagination of blackness." …
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Ethnic admixture in African American ancestry as reflected in dental patterns
… from which most African Americans came, the middle passage, the African diaspora once Africans reached the Americas, and African American relationships with Native Americans during and after slavery as well as African American interaction with Asian populations in what is now the United …
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Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought
… Caribbean (the slave trade and in particular the Middle Passage), and the way in which they configure a paradoxical, abyssal experience, I show why it is imperative for Glissant to challenge a traditional account of history that he connects with a Western conception of temporality and spatiality. …
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Precedents in African American architecture
… American gardens (1619-present), and (iv) the Middle Passage Monument (1993). These architectural elements can play an integral role in designing for African American communities in the future. To demonstrate this point, I use these African American architectural elements in designing housing …
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
… original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic subjectivity intertwined with corporeal motion. The subsequent emancipatory journey to freedom, as recited in slave narratives, decentred the coercive migrations of the slave trade by coupling the subversive …
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August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
… Chapter 2 shows the historical facts about the Middle Passage and the system of slavery demonstrated in Gem of the Ocean and The Piano Lesson. Chapter 3 demonstrates the effects of the Great Migration through the characters in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Chapter 4 illustrates the history of …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
… history, and philosophical fiction. Through the Middle Passage and enslavement, Black bodies became the site not only of white racist discursive constructions, but the victim of white brutality and inhumanity that literally left the Black body marked, scarred. Through an exploration of Black …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
… naval capture produced conditions similar to the Middle Passage, generating significant uncertainty for the slaves regarding how the naval crew would treat them. The second and third chapters focus on court adjudication, demonstrating that anti-slave-trade courts shaped norms for slaves’ testimony …
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The captives are translated, attached at the wrists' : a study of Antillean identities in the works of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau
… More specifically, I suggest that the Middle Passage can be seen as the translation of human bodies and identities from East to West across the Atlantic Ocean, from their origins in the continent of Africa, to the Americas and to the islands of the Antilles. Secondly, I propose that a …
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Toward a Curatorial Praxis of Planetarity
… by the movement of the waves, evoking the Middle Passage as well as climate change. Sensing Nature (2021–22), the Momenta Biennale, centers embodiment and nonhuman sensibilities. Sex Ecologies (2021–22) focuses on long-term commissions and collaborative processes. The PhD contributes to the …
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Forget Us Not
<p>I create because I mourn, to seek comfort in the knowing and sharing of Suppressed Histories, and to find joy in the rediscovering of lost stories. I create the vessel, which for me is akin to the human body. A form containing memories, wisdom, a soul, and a space for transportation between …
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Orifice of Return
Orifice of Return is a collection of poetry that posits Black femme bodies as living and breathing archives, corporeal manifestations of intuitive and intellectual claims at survival. The poems in this collection illustrate the multifaceted nature of my craft, through which the personal, the …