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Chapter Releasing the Prisoners of Hope: Dante’s Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Florence Firenze University Press

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Beginning with a tribute to the late Chris 'Zithulele' Mann, a poet and activist who was deeply immersed in Dante, this chapter comments on some of the patterns that emerge from the creative contributions of the Dantessa students. Two authors affirm and explore ideas of black womanhood by appealing to Beatrice and Francesca, potentially combining the two figures. Several authors are acutely aware of the purgatorial condition of post-apartheid South Africa, suggesting a long and arduous march to freedom. The image of flight recurs: thrice, madly, into the inferno and once, temporarily, in limbo. These lively responses to La Commedia prompt the question: what kind of literary studies is proper to purgatory, and elicit a tentative reply, urging a re-invention of the discipline of letters.


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La place de la parole noire
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ISBN: 9782490297023 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Anacaona Editions,

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La place de la parole noire questionne qui a droit à la parole dans une société où la masculinité, la blanchité et l'hétérosexualité sont la norme. S'appuyant sur les réflexions de féministes historiques comme Simone de Beauvoir et de féministes noires modernes, Djamila Ribeiro révèle la position critique de la femme noire : elle est l'autre de l'autre, à la marge du débat sur le racisme centré sur l'homme noir, et à la marge du débat sur le genre centré sur la femme blanche. Le féminisme noir réfléchit à la façon dont les oppressions de race, de genre, et de classe s'entrecroisent. DJAMILA RIBEIRO, maître en philosophie politique, est la référence du mouvement féministe noir, antiraciste, pro-LGBT et antimachiste au Brésil. Chroniqueuse pour la presse et la TV, elle donne aussi des conférences dans le monde entier. Avec un demi-million de suiveurs sur les réseaux sociaux, c'est une activiste de poids. « Un excellent objet de débat entre les différentes interprétations du féminisme » (Folha de São Paulo)


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European others : queering ethnicity in postnational Europe
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ISBN: 9780816670154 9780816670161 0816670153 0816670161 Year: 2011 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.) : University of Minnesota press,

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"European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond disciplinary and national limits, Fatima El-Tayeb explores structures of resistance, tracing a Europeanization from below in which migrant and minority communities challenge the ideology of racelessness that places them firmly outside the community of citizens. Using a notable variety of sources, from drag performances to feminist Muslim activism and Euro hip-hop, El-Tayeb draws on the largely ignored archive of vernacular culture central to resistance by minority youths to the exclusionary nationalism that casts them as threatening outcasts. At the same time, she reveals the continued effect of Europe's suppressed colonial history on the representation of Muslim minorities as the illiberal Other of progressive Europe. Presenting a sharp analysis of the challenges facing a united Europe seen by many as a model for twenty-first-century postnational societies, El-Tayeb combines theoretical influences from both sides of the Atlantic to lay bare how Europeans of color are integral to the continent's past, present, and, inevitably, its future." --


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Your silence will not protect you
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ISBN: 9780995716223 0995716226 Year: 2017 Publisher: S.l. Silver Press

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This book collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by the constant presence on many Women's Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde's work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.


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Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of black feminist sound
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ISBN: 9780674052819 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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"Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of African American women on stage and in the recording studio. Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures-a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer black feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline Hopkins as America's first black female cultural intellectual. Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording, collecting, and rock and roll music criticism. She makes lyrical forays into the blues pioneers Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith, as well as fans who became critics, like the record-label entrepreneur and writer Rosetta Reitz. In the twenty-first century, pop superstar Janelle Monae's liner notes are recognized for their innovations, while celebrated singers Cecile McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, and Valerie June take their place as serious cultural historians. Above all, Liner Notes for the Revolution reads black female musicians and entertainers as intellectuals. At stake is the question of who gets to tell the story of black women in popular music and how"--


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Bodyminds reimagined : (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction
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ISBN: 0822371839 0822370883 0822370735 9780822370888 9780822370734 9780822371830 Year: 2018 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.

The trouble between us : an uneasy history of white and Black women in the feminist movement
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ISBN: 9780195179040 0195179048 0199788588 0190292490 0195334590 1429402911 1281156744 0198039808 9786611156749 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,


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Kara Walker: Fons Americanus Hyundai Commission
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ISBN: 9781849766852 1849766851 Year: 2020 Publisher: Tate Publishing

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The work's of New York based artist Kara Walker (b. 1969) have been featured prominently in exhibitions around the world since the mid-1990s. Walker is renowned for her candid explorations of race, gender, sexuality and violence, from drawings, prints, murals, shadow puppets, cut-paper silhouettes, and projections to large-scale sculptural installations, often referencing the history of slavery and the antebellum American South. Now, Walker is creating the latest Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Documenting the work's creation, this book includes images of the work in process as well as the final installation. Walker introduces a personal selection of archival images and artworks that have influenced her during the genesis of this work. Essays by curator Clara Kim and a specially commissioned piece by the celebrated writer Zadie Smith offer fresh and intriguing insights into Walker's life and career.https://www.copyrightbookshop.be/shop/kara-walker-fons-americanus-hyundai-commission/


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Lavender and red
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ISBN: 0520965701 9780520965706 9780520279056 0520279050 9780520279063 0520279069 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oakland, California

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LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.


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Black trans feminism
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ISBN: 9781478017813 9781478015178 9781478022428 1478022426 Year: 2022 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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"Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each, conceiving of black trans feminism as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power."--

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