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Bodies in chorus aquilombado. Towards a theory of political action [PDF]

Cadernos Pagu
Thinking with Saidiya Hartman and Conceição Evaristo, this article develops a critical lexicon to apprehend feminist and antiracist political actions enacted by subjects rarely recognized as political agents.
Raissa Wihby Ventura
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The practices of radical refusal in biblical feminist interpretation and black study

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
Gender-specific frameworks detect androcentrism in biblical texts and create a methodology and a reading practice of reading the stories of women not only as by-products of their environments or religious figures but also humanises them through radical ...
Lerato L. Mokoena
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Replaying and Rediscovering The Octoroon [PDF]

, 2017
For over one hundred and fifty years, productions and adaptations of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s explosive 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, have reflected differing and sometimes contentious meanings and messages about race and enslavement in a range
Merrill, Lisa, Saxon, Theresa
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‘A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic [PDF]

, 2015
This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Hoermann, Raphael
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"On the Spot": travelling artists and Abolitionism, 1770-1830 [PDF]

, 2011
Until recently the visual culture of Atlantic slavery has rarely been critically scrutinised. Yet in the first decades of the nineteenth century slavery was frequently represented by European travelling artists, often in the most graphic, sometimes ...
Akel Regina, Assunção Matthias Röhrig, Bell Leonard, Bethell Leslie, Boime Albert, Bryant Joshua, Davis David Brion, Davis David Brion, Edney Matthew, Graham Maria Dundas, Graves Algernon, Greenblatt Stephen Jay, Hackforth-Jones Jocelyn, Hartman Saidiya V, Honychurch Lennox, Hoock Holger, Karasch Mary C, Klonk Charlotte, Leask Nigel, McDonald Patricia R., Mitchell W.J.T, Oldfield John R, Pagden Anthony, Sarah Thomas, Schultz Kirsten, Stedman John Gabriel, Thomas Sarah, Williams Eric Eustace, Wood Marcus, Wood Marcus   +29 more
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The Past Isn’t What It Used To Be

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2020
Critical feminist theorists have pointed out how the idea of the singular, revolutionary Act tends to reinforce masculinist and colonialist imaginaries. In this essay, I argue for the need to elaborate other ways of revolting.
Fanny Wendt Höjer
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Viewing Inside the Invisible: African Atlantic visual arts in the 1990s [PDF]

, 2013
This article examines work by a variety of African Atlantic artists who investigated slavery and memory in the 1990s. They range from the maverick African-American artists and interventionists, Kara Walker and Fred Wilson, through the Cuban artist, Maria
Rice, Alan
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Empty Fields and Crying Stones [PDF]

, 2016
In response to a recent exhibition at SALT in Istanbul, I reflect on how to exhibit histories that remain ...
Vilalta, Helena
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Continuities and Reminders, or Writing in the Afterlife of Slavery [PDF]

, 2017
Impromptu conference presentation delivered a few weeks after the 2016 presidential election, at the request of a former professor and now cherished ...
Adrian Emmanuel Hernandez-Acosta
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