The future is now a new look at African diaspora studies
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- ISBN: 9781443836777 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 144383677X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1443836389
- ISBN: 9781443836388
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1 online resource (viii, 223 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. "The Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is a collection of essays born of presentations offered at the conference Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora that took place April 22-24, 2010 at the City College of New York."--Introduction. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Because When God is too Busy: Haiti, Me and the World / (excerpts from a performance by) Gina Athena Ulysse -- "Mistè a Gatem": Deploying Ezili and Queering the Haitian Religious Experience in Anne Lescot's and Laurence Magloire's Film Des hommes et des dieux / Sophie Saint-Just -- Meticulous Production and the Embodiment of History: María Magdalena Campos-Pons's My Mother Told Me I Am Chinese Series / Heather Shirey -- El arte como resistencia: Lo afropuertorriqueño / María Elba Torres-Muñoz -- Afirmación étnica y estética en la ensayística y poética de Jorge Artel Luisa García-Conde -- The Holy Temple of Soca: Rev. Rudder in Attendance / Alison McLetchie -- Afro-Brazilian Literature, from the Periphery to the Center / Vanessa K. Valdés -- Decolonizing the Banjo: Cultural Memory and a (Re)representation of Slave Performance 1700s--1863 / Katya Isayev -- The Challenge of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters: (Re)Claiming Wholeness / Ashley David -- Performing the Archive: Photography and the Africana World / Brendan Wattenberg -- Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of African Diaspora Studies / Vanessa K. Valdés. |
Language Note: | Articles in English and Spanish. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Africans -- Europe African diaspora Africans BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Africans -- America BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary African diaspora America Europe Multi-User |
Genre: | Electronic books. |