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    Aref, Tunis (2014), courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Scarlett Coten, Mectoub: In the Shadow of the Arab Spring

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    The negotiation of identity looms large at the nexus of the colonial past and the postcolonial reality, and it is an important exercise for nations and citizens seeking separation and[...]

    On Umbrellas… -- Lumley Market, Freetown Sierra Leone, July 2015

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    (Alter)Native Lens: Seeing my Sierra Leone like a Postcolony

    Author: Fodei Batty

    “…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Represión, persecución y estrategia de lucha del independentismo puertorriqueño

    Author: Cruzhilda López

    En octubre del 2001, publicamos un estudio lexicográfico sobre la penetración del español americano en la lengua italiana contemporánea. En el léxico estudiado, se documenta la “crónica” de los últimos[...]

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured

    À la naissance du sens (Poetry)

    Author: Trihn Lo

    Si l’on s’en tient à l’étymologie, le mot expression – dérivé du latin tardif expressio « action de faire sortir en pressant », du verbe exprimere (de ex et premere)[...]

    MenInTheSun

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    “Men in the Sun” and the Modern Allegory

    Author: Nadeen Shaker

    Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani is often compared to William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, and occasionally, to Arab authors such as Yahya Haqqi, all bound together as allegorists. The Palestinian novella, Men[...]

    DakArt

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine · Releases

    Dak’art 2014: At a crossroads

    Author: Anna Stielau

    Towering over the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the recently completed African Renaissance Monument casts a long shadow that stretches out across the surrounding suburb of Ouakom. Ahead of these three[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Releases

    Mai 68 au service de l’interdiscursivité médiatique : entre mémoire révolutionnaire et mémoire discursive. Deux approches interdisciplinaires : lexiculture et mots événements

    Author: Cristina Onesta

    « Il faut liquider l’héritage de Mai 68 » : est-ce possible aujourd’hui ? Ce phénomène historique semble être désormais enraciné dans la culture et l’histoire françaises, comme s’il était[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Mythology, Taboo and Cultural Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

    Author: Alissa Simon

    The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak, discusses the complexities presented by political upheaval and cultural stereotype. Shafak portrays two families, one Armenian and one Turkish, who share strong cultural[...]

    BGG Cover (hi) (featured)

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Black Gay Genius (Book Review)

    Author: Egbert Alejandro Martina

    Travelling with Joseph in the Wake Black Gay Genius, an anthology edited by Steven Fullwood and Charles Stevens, opens with a meditation, a series of haunting questions that linger and will,[...]

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    The Strategic Success of ISIS Propaganda (video lecture)

    Author: Amanda Rogers

    Dr. Amanda Rogers, a member of our editorial board, recently delivered a lecture titled “The Strategic Success of ISIS Propaganda” at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, where she is currently an[...]

    Hmland

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Framing Muslim Women: The Problem with Homeland’s Season 4 Campaign

    Author: Mariam Karim

    Image Credit: Wikipedia On my last trip to NYC, I was overwhelmed with Homeland season four’s new advertisement campaign plastered on almost every public bus in the city. The American[...]

    Haiti-Curtis

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    Early Postcolonialism in Haiti: On Being between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Author: Lesley S. Curtis

    Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]

    ThisCountryIsALieAndWell-Galanin

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    Transcendence, Transformation and Continuum: Summer 2014 at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    * All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]

    ArcticSummer_2

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Art of Compassionate Mimicry: Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut (Book Review)

    Author: Preti Taneja

    Edwin Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India haunts writers with the implications of what can be achieved by what is not said. Damon Galgut ventures into this territory with his[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Mapping the Image of the Jew in Postmodern Arabic Fiction

    Author: Seddik Gohar

    “We aforetime grant to the children of Israel the Book (Torah)  the power of command,  and prophet-hood,  We gave them for sustenance, things good and pure, and we favored them[...]

    Capoeida-Cuba

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Rediscovering lo cubano Through Capoeira in Cuba

    Author: Annie Gibson

    When members of the Cuban capoeira group Caiman Capoeira were asked what the world should know about their group, almost unanimously they responded, “Let the world know that in Cuba[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Book Review: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair (Michael Deibert, 2013)

    Author: Soraya Aziz Souleymane

    Michael Deibert’s The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair is a 260-page well-researched book compiling Congo’s struggles dating back to the 15th century (the moment when the Congolese[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Peter Clarke: Meditations on Space, Place and Movement

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The artist Peter Clarke was one of the first people I met on my arrival to Cape Town. As I remember it now, the impact of the quiet, careful elder[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine

    Antinomies of neighborliness, or anti-blackness as a reactionary persistence

    Author: Athi Joja

    Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts

    Ibn Fadlan: Crossing Over and the Nature of the Boundary

    Author: Joy Hayward-Jansen

    “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]

    President-Bekolo-Featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Review of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s “Le Président”

    Author: Amber Murrey

    “When will it end? 1982-201?” The open-ended question – with the last digit intentionally left out – fills the final screen of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s most recent film, Le Président (2013).  The question[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Narrativas de Deslocamento na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea

    Author: Marcus Brasileiro

    Notas introdutórias O conceito de viagem, de acordo com Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1996), se transformou em uma referência a movimentos populacionais, bem como em[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Cartography of Mass City-zenry in Global Netscapes in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Stories ‘Los desaarraigados’ [‘The Uprooted’] and ‘La grieta’ [‘The Crevice’].

    Author: Indrani Mukherjee

    While traditional storytelling was based on oral renderings as imagined by a narrator, now the trends are often based on the visual readings of events as imagined by the availability[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Labyrinths of memories: A conversation with Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]

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