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In his 1996 essay, ‘Music and Identity’, sociologist and music critic Simon Frith argued that identity was not a thing but a process. That our identities came from the outside, not the inside; subjectivity, a question of doing rather than... more
In the light of the Brexit vote, and the recent surge in nationalism and xenophobia in Europe, this article analyses the condition of the immigrant within fashion to pose the question: how can fashion contribute to an understanding of... more
Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners is a text preoccupied with movement—it maps a London transformed by West Indian immigrants as they search for work, travel to and from their jobs, move in and out of rented apartments, and tour the city’s... more
The notions of conviviality, everyday multiculturalism, ordinary cosmopolitanism focus on how people live together in contexts of cultural diversity. However, discussion has been to a large degree limited to the context of the... more
Dieser Artikel interpretiert Hannah Arendts Formulierung von den Flüchtlingen als »Avantgarde ihrer Völker« als eine grundsätzliche Infragestellung moderner Nationalstaatlichkeit. Das macht es nötig, ihre Forderung nach dem »Recht, Rechte... more
Instead of one black intellectual tradition, there are black intellectual traditions. After discussing the origins of intellectual work among people designated "black," this article explores various intellectual movements from black... more
Publication Name: Published in Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 36(1), pp 101–121. More Info: NOTE: This material is intended for purposes of education, research, scholarly communication, or critical commentary, all in conformity with... more
O presente texto visa apresentar alguns contornos de um conceito de história na obra de Paul Gilroy. Através de um relato biográfico, sugere-se que aplicar aos seus trabalhos métodos de leitura oriundos do campo da História da... more
Esta dissertação propõe analisar a imaginação histórica de Paul Gilroy, um intelectual afro-britânico integrante da teoria pós-colonial. Submete-se sua obra à seguinte questão: como e por que Paul Gilroy escreve a história? A fim de... more
The widespread application of the “Grey Zone” shows that Levi is not only an indispensable memoirist, but also an important theorist of the Holocaust. While the “Grey Zone” is one of his most important concepts, it is not without... more
Both Gilroy’s and Glissant’s theories seem to be animated by a similar question: What ideas of belonging, justice and responsibility operate in societies in which membership is based on neither filiation nor consent? With this question in... more
In this essay, I explore the relation between orality as a metaphysical question, sound, the sorrow songs, and Gilroy's notion of the slave sublime. The essay begins with two encounters with sound-as-memory: Frederick Douglass'... more
O presente trabalho visa analisar a concepção do tempo histórico no livro O Atlântico negro de Paul Gilroy, buscando entender sua proposta de escrita da história negra. Focaremos no conceito de diáspora, que perpassa todo o trabalho de... more
Once believed to be on the verge of a great literary career, William Gardner Smith faded into obscurity after his death, and his work has received very little attention over the years from scholars of African American literature. However,... more
This course explores the engendering of gender and racial differences in English Renaissance drama. Key critical idioms introduced in this course include: race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, identity politics, globalization,... more
Introduction delivered at MF School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, Norway on May 31 2022.
The idea of literary canon is an increasingly contentious issue within discourse of literature, particularly with regard to the alleged 'west'. As general consciousness of patriarchal, settlercolonial, hetero-normative and cis-normative... more
During an Anglo-American literature course, we especially focused on the Middle Passage and its authors, which led to this essay were I briefly explore Cugoano's and Equiano's autobiographies, along with Hayden's and Boone's poems. These... more
Through examining the BBC television series, Black and British: A Forgotten History, written and presented by the historian David Olusoga, and in extending Paul Gilroy’s assertion that the everyday, banality of living with difference is... more
The Black Atlantic è un’appassionata riflessione sul dibattuto tema dell’identità nera. Il suo obiettivo è quello di delineare i contorni storici di una cultura nera transatlantica e delocalizzata, prodotta e riprodotta dalla circolazione... more
In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, seeks to... more
This essay will explore the contemporary figuration of Postcolonial Europe by reading the discourse of the European activist network Movement X (MvX) through contemporary political theorizations of equality and anonymity. The denial of... more
Communication prononcée à l'occasion du Colloque international de l’APELA (Association pour l’étude des littératures africaines), « Images et usages du peuple dans les littératures d’Afrique et de la diaspora », 12-14 septembre 2017,... more
Frederick Douglass’s novella “The Heroic Slave” (1853) centres on issues of narrative voice. The protagonist of the text, Madison Washington, is constituted—in Lacanian terms—as a speaking being, and the narrative drive of the novella (in... more
To paraphrase Freud, ‘Immigration to Europe and its discontents’ would represent a fitting title for a much-needed study in the contemporary political climate, with the potential to outline a political psychology, even what one might call... more