Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
Expansions of the Real
A Study of Climate Change Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Abstract
This article explores the challenges posed by the Anthropocene and climate change to human perceptions of reality and the need to revise...
Diaspora, Modernism, and Black Masculinities in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement
AbstractFollowing the transnational turn in modernist studies, and building on Stuart Hall’s and Nadia Ellis’s concepts of diaspora as key to...
“Ye Be the Clear Morag Yourself”
Spivak, a Global Marx, and Just Weather Talk
Abstract
This essay creates a heuristic homology between postcoloniality and strains of survivorship whose very contingency “de-humaniz[es] greed as the...
The Ambivalence of Revolutionary Cleaning in Mona Prince's Revolution is My Name
AbstractEgyptian writer Mona Prince’s self-published 2012 memoir Revolution is My Name abounds with descriptions of transferring Tahrir Square...
Singing Blackness
Racial Discourse in Black Cuban and Black Dominican Rap and Hip-Hop
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In this article I propose the exploration of racial discourse in recent Black Caribbean rap and hip-hop productions. Rap and hip-hop are often...