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New Entry: Négritude (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Farhang Erfani — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:01:16 +0000

Towards the end of his life, Aimé Césaire has declared that the question he and his friend Léopold Sédar Senghor came to raise after they first met was: “Who am I? Who are we? What are we in this white world?” And he commented: “That’s quite a problem” (Césaire 2005, 23). “Who am I?” is a question Descartes posed, and a reader of the French philosopher naturally understands such a question to be universal, and the subject who says “I” here to stand for any human being. But when “who am I?” has to be translated as “who are we?” everything changes especially when the “we” have to define themselves against a world which leaves no room for who and what they are because they are black folks in a world where “universal” seems to naturally mean “white”.

“Négritude”, or the self-affirmation of black peoples, or the affirmation of the values of civilization of something defined as “the black world” as an answer to the question “what are we in this white world?” is indeed “quite a problem”: it poses many questions that will be examined here through the following headings:

via Négritude (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

TOC: Feminist Review: Volume 90, Issue 1 (October 2008)

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:24:37 +0000

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‘I Like Your Colour!’ skin bleaching and geographies of race in urban Ghana – Jemima Pierre

why queer diaspora? – Meg Wesling

diasporic governmentality: on the gendered limits of migrant wage-labour in Portugal – Kesha Fikes

wal-mart, ‘katrina’, and other ideological tricks: Jamaican hotel workers in Michigan – Deborah A Thomas

engendering ‘race’ in calls for diasporic community in Sweden – Lena Sawyer

postcolonial criticism, transnational identifications and the hegemonies of dancehall’s academic and popular performativities – Denise Noble

the comic side of gender trouble and Bert Williams’ signature act – Michelle Ann Stephens

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 44 Issue 3 2008

Farhang Erfani — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:46:07 +0000

Issue on New Directions in Postcolonial Studies

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Comparative Literature and Culture, Vol 10 (1), 2008

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:54:41 +0000

	Joseph S. Pinter On the Convergence of Innis’s International Political Economy and Sebald’s Novels
	Arina Lungu Marx, Postmodernism, and Spatial Configurations in Jameson and Lefebvre
	Eric Sipyinyu Njeng Achebe, Conrad, and the Postcolonial Strain
	María Odette Canivell Nation Building, Utopia, and the Latin American Writer/Intellectual
	Shimberlee Jirón-King Thompson’s and Acosta’s Collaborative Creation of the Gonzo Narrative Style

Edward Said, “The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations”

Farhang Erfani — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:43:43 +0000

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CFP: Edward Said’s Legacy

Farhang Erfani — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:30:33 +0000

“Counterpoints: Edward Said’s Legacy”
Interdisciplinary Colloquium
University of Ottawa
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON (Canada)
31 October – 2 November 2008

This bilingual English/French colloquium celebrates the works of one of the world’s most compelling intellectuals, the Palestinian-American thinker Edward Said (November 1st 1935- September 23rd 2003), author of “Orientalism,” “Culture and Imperialism,” and “Out of Place” among other famous books. The colloquium revolves around the theme of “Counterpoint,” extensively used by Said as the interplay of diverse ideas and various “discrepant” cultural experiences.

As Said writes in Culture and Imperialism: “As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to reread
it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which (and together with which) the dominating discourse acts.”

Following Said’s legacy this colloquium envisions a polyphonic, interdisciplinary engagement from fields as broad as comparative literature, sociology, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Diaspora studies, musicology, and political science with a special focus on Middle Eastern politics.

The organizers seek papers/ panel proposals drawing from or expanding on the following themes:
- Colonialism and Imperialism: A Middle Eastern Context
- Transnationalism and Reflections on Exile
- Overlapping Territories and Imaginative Geographies
- Language, History and the Production of Knowledge
- The Arab World: States, Territories and Refugees.
- Gender, Class and Orientalism
- Criticism and French Philosophy
- Otherness in the Arts
- Representations of the Secular
- Power, Politics and Truth

Please send a 200 word abstract of paper/panel proposals to: counterpoints.conference@gmail.com

Deadline for paper/panel submission: July 15th, 2008

For more information please contact: may.telmissany@uottawa.ca or nahla_abdo@carleton.ca

e-texts: Spivak – In Other Worlds

Farhang Erfani — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:20:11 +0000

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Video: Mouffe and Spivak

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:32:05 +0000

The conference Be[comi]ng Dutch has posted a number of great videos, including ones with Mouffe and Spivak.

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E-Texts: Spivak

Farhang Erfani — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:19:03 +0000

Interviews with Spivak, entitled The Post-Colonial Critic.

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