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    Terraferma-Featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Cineasti afrodiscendenti in Italia: Un doppio campo di battaglia

    Author: Leonardo De Franceschi

    Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]

    Colectivo Basta-featured

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured

    El arte urbano y su poder revitalizador: el caso de Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Santurce es un área que cuenta con una escena artística y cultural variada. Antiguamente un municipio por derecho propio conocido como San Mateo de Cangrejos, hoy día es un barrio[...]

    Haram-featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Haram: Staging Love & Revolution in Los Angeles

    Author: Ahmed Younis

    Article Photo Credits: Samira Idroos The Play There are moments in history when a single word can represent an existential struggle between self-perceived opposites. Haram is such a word in[...]

    Neighbours

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Vecinos. Neighbours. Film Review: “Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else”

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]

    Public-Humanities

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    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

    Arts · Featured · Magazine

    Dialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany Laferrière to the Académie Française

    Author: Clint Bruce

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Addie Leak, a freelance translator based in France.   Moreover, the idea itself of classifying writers[...]

    GrassIsSinging

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    Film Review: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (Michael Raeburn, 1981)

    Author: Elizabeth Taylor

    “It is more important to buy a sjambok than a plough” was the advice the prosperous Charlie Muller gave to the young farmer Dick Turner. The sjambok, a long whip[...]

    FireInTheBlood

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    Fire in the Blood: Medicine, Monopoly, and AIDS in the Global South

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    The story of the global pharmaceutical industry’s complicity in the AIDS related deaths of millions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is a story that, like politics and religion, gets[...]

    Hassan-Musa

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    Poétique du tableau offert : Entretien avec Hassan Musa

    Author: Alisa Belanger

    Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [U]ne image, dans le fond, c’est comme une bouteille à la mer. J’écris un message que je mets dans une bouteille, que je lance à la mer. Elle[...]

    Hassan-Musa

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    Poetics of the Visual Text: Interview with Hassan Musa

    Author: Alisa Belanger

    Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [A]n image, deep down, is like a bottle thrown into the sea.  I write a message that I put into a bottle, that I throw to the sea.[...]

    The-Little-Book-of-Kabul

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    The Little Book of Kabul: a project by Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    Author: Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    With the impending presidential elections and the withdrawal of international forces, 2014 is a foreboding year for Afghanistan. However, there is more to the country than war and violence. There[...]

    Jilali-Hamham

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    Entretien avec Jilali Hamham, écrivain de MachiAdam (with English translation)

    Author: Laura Reeck

    (Read the English version below) J’ai rencontré Jilali Hamham à Angers quelques mois après la parution de son premier roman, MachiAdam chez Rivages/Noir. Il m’a fait visiter sa ville, il[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

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    Dialectique de l’immortalité: Pour situer l’élection de Dany Laferrière à l’Académie française

    Author: Clint Bruce

    [L]’idée même de classer les écrivains par langue est déjà pour moi une idée assez provinciale. Je ne suis pas un écrivain de langue française, ni francophone, je suis un[...]

    Dany-Laffiere-2

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    Entrevue avec Dany Laferrière, récemment élu à l’Académie française (Interview with Dany Laferrière, recently elected to the Académie française)

    Author: Pénélope Cormier

    Recently elected to the Académie française,  Dany Laferrière is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. The Postcolonialist editor Pénélope Cormier interviewed him on October 10, 2013, just before his candidacy was announced. An English translation of the interview[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “Woman Walking Heavy/Brown Worlds in her Face”: Global(ized) Identities and Universal Patriotism in the poetry of Suheir Hammad

    Author: Soraya Abuelhiga

    What if we declared ourselves perpetual refugees in solidarity with all refugees needing safe human harbor from violence and domination and injustice and inequality? …We are all refugees horribly displaced[...]

    Juan De Los Muertos

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    Terror y horror en el cine contemporáneo del Caribe

    Author: Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, PhD

    Una masa casi indefinible de cuerpos en descomposición cubre el fondo del Océano Atlántico y se extiende a lo largo de las noventa millas entre La Habana y Miami. Ya[...]

    AbuBakr

    Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Egypt: Everyone is Right, But Everyone is Wrong

    Author: Abu Bakr Shawky

    “Civil War doesn’t start when countrymen raise their weapons against each other. It starts when they lose their humanity,” commented Egypt’s notorious political satirist Bassem Youssef, following the military dispersal[...]

    God Loves Uganda

    Arts · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Righteous Crusades? Imperialism, homophobia and the danger of simplification in God Loves Uganda

    Author: Siobhán McGuirk

    In his new documentary, God Loves Uganda (2013), director Rodger Ross Williams trains a sharply focused lens on the Evangelical missionaries travelling from Missouri to “The Pearl of Africa” to[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Le 1er festival de théâtre populaire des travailleurs immigrés de Suresnes : naissance d’une lutte et d’une esthétique postcoloniales

    Author: Jeanne Le Gallic

    L’étude des courants artistiques postcoloniaux dans le champ de la recherche scientifique se caractérise par une lecture relativement tardive des mouvements et de leurs contextes d’émergence. Si les Postcolonial Studies[...]

    LasKrudas

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Hip hop cubano: entrevista con Las Krudas

    Author: Lara Dotson-Renta, PhD

    Krudas Cubensi (Las Krudas) son un grupo de rap formado en Cuba durante la década de los 90 con tres integrantes: Odaymara Cuesta, Olivia Prendes, y Odalys Cuesta (conocida como[...]

    Gonzales-1

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Poética de un yo mutilado: Identidad y cuerpo en la serie “Ofrendas” de Andrés González.

    Author: Guillermo Severiche

    ¡Oh innoble servidumbre de amar seres humanos, y la más innoble que es amarse a sí mismo! “Contra Jaime Gil de Biedma” Jaime Gil de Biedma El mito de Narciso[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    « Gbê est mieux que drap » : la musique urbaine, le nouchi et la révolte des jeunes en Côte d’Ivoire depuis les années 1990

    Author: Germain-Arsène Kadi

    Introduction Parallèlement à la crise sociale et politique qui secoue ce pays d’Afrique de l’ouest depuis deux décennies, la musique urbaine des jeunes a connu un développement prodigieux en Côte[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    Littérature postcoloniale et transfert de l’héritage culturel : le dilemme linguistique des écrivains africains

    Author: Kouamé Adou

    Introduction Depuis les premiers contacts entre les Européens et les Africains, l’écriture est devenue un outil de communication indispensable pour le continent africain. En effet, non seulement elle a rendu[...]

    Vivant-Art-Collection

    Arts · Culture · Magazine

    Haitian Art in the United States: An Interview with Florcy Morisset

    Author: V. Shayne Frederick

    Florcy Morisset is the founder and curator of Vivant Art Collection, a Philadelphia-based art gallery dedicated to displaying and promoting Haitian and other Caribbean art in the United States. Haiti,[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Écrire l’hybridité d’Haïti autour de la figure du roi Christophe, dans Le Royaume de ce monde de Carpentier et La Tragédie du roi Christophe de Césaire

    Author: Cyrielle Dodet

    In cultural, literary and postcolonial studies, hybridity, syncretism, creolization, métissage have become common tropes. (…) if everything is hybrid, what does hybridity mean? Hence the next question to come up[...]

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