Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-03-31 Tambay A. Obenson Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in “Little Boxes“ The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a couple of weeks, running from April 13-24 in New York City. Leading…

  • Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora University Press of Florida 2014-06-17 240 pages 6.125 x 9.256 Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3 Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies University of Montana In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse…

  • Understanding and Hearing the Afro-Asian Atlantic Princeton University African American Studies 2016-03-21 Presenters: Tao Leigh Goffe, Kerry Young, Hannah Lowe, Randy Chin, and John Kuo Wei Tchen A panel exploring the intersections of literature, reggae, and the relationships between the minority Chinese community in the Caribbean and the majority Afro-Caribbean community This panel will be…

  • I Can’t Breathe Boston Review 2016-03-21 Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Race in Medical School Curricula In the fall of 2015, U.S. college students ignited in protest about campus and national racism. Chanting “I Can’t Breathe” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”—recalling the final…

  • Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna’s ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The responses reveal as much about our own national and regional anxieties…

  • In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self State University of New York Press April 2016 296 pages Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5977-6 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5978-3 Mariana Ortega, Professor of Philosophy John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood. This original study intertwining Latina…

  • Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 to 1897 Liverpool University Press 2016-05-02 224 Pages 239 x 163mm Hardback ISBN: 9781781383018 Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies University of Kentucky Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism…

  • Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…

  • The ‘anti-racist’ crowd have resorted to the old politics of racism The Spectator 2016-03-07 Brendan O’Neill The self-important slayers of ‘cultural appropriation’ have gone too far this time. Clearly they didn’t get a big-enough moral kick from chastising white people who do yoga (on the basis that yoga has ‘roots in Indian culture’), moaning about…

  • Why Zoe Saldana was the wrong black woman to play Nina Simone The Telegraph 2016-03-04 Emma Dabiri With her long silky hair and brown tan skin, Zoe Saldana may well be black. But is she “black enough” to play Nina Simone? Some people seem to think not. Ms Simone’s surviving family have asked Saldana, who…