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A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.
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Dalton, Christin, and Lisa on Henzell, Baugh, and The Wailers
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Dalton, Christin, and Lisa discuss the final bit of material from the seminar, including Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, Edward Baugh's "The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History," and The Wailers' album Burnin'.By John E. Drabinski
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Edward Baugh, Perry Henzell, and The Wailers - Inventiveness, the Underclass, and the Sounds of the Everyday
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A discussion of Edward Baugh's essay "The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History," Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, and The Wailer's masterpiece album Burnin'.By John E. Drabinski
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Kayna, Dalton, and Abby on Maryse Condé and the Creolists
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Kayna, Dalton, and Abby discuss the Creolist's response to Maryse Condé's critical remarks on the créolité movement, thinking through questions of nation, time, and identity.By John E. Drabinski
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Maryse Condé and the Créolité Movement - Literature, Identity, Diaspora
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A discussion of Maryse Condé's essay "Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer" and the critical interview "Créolité Bites" with Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, with particular emphasis on the relationship between literature, identity, and diaspora.By John E. Drabinski
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Charlie, Lisa, and Teagan on Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant
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Charlie, Lisa, and Teagan discuss In Praise of Creoleness and its cultural politics of race, identity, and expression.By John E. Drabinski
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Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant - Creoleness, Identity, Literature
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Discussion of Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant's 1989 manifesto In Praise of Creoleness, with particular attention to questions of identity, cultural production, and the relation between writer and reader.By John E. Drabinski
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Teagan, Lisa, and Kayna on Kamau Brathwaite
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Discussion of Kamau Brathwaite's poetics and poetic praxis with Teagan, Kayna, and Lisa.By John E. Drabinski
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Kamau Brathwaite - Orality, Aurality, and Postcolonial Intelligence
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A discussion of the relation between orality and aurality in Kamau Brathwaite's poetics and poetic praxis.By John E. Drabinski
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Mary Catherine, Twanna, and Christin on Wilson Harris
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A discussion of Wilson Harris' work with Mary Catherine Contreras, Twanna Hodge, and Christin Washington.By John E. Drabinski
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Wilson Harris - Creoleness, Identity, and the Imagination
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A discussion of two late essays by Wilson Harris on creoleness and the imagination, with particular emphasis on how they ask us to rethink and recalibrate our language of identity.By John E. Drabinski
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Twanna, Abigail, and Charlie on Glissant and Benítez-Rojo
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Abigail, Twanna, and Charlie discuss the intersections between the work of Glissant and Benítez-Rojo.By John E. Drabinski
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Édouard Glissant and Antonio Benítez-Rojo - The Archipelago, Chaos, and an Ethics of the Aesthetic
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A discussion of Glissant's and Benítez-Rojo's conceptions of the archipelago, chaos, and the implications for an ethic of globalized aesthetics.By John E. Drabinski
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Twanna, Mary Catherine, and Dalton on Glissant and Walcott
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A discussion of Glissant's and Walcott's work, specifically the opening pages of Poetics of Relation and the poem "The Sea is History."By John E. Drabinski
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Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant - History, the Sea, and Caribbean Identity
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Reflections on Derek Walcott's 1977 poem "The Sea is History" and the opening sections of Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, with emphasis on history and identity in relation to the Middle Passage and its catastrophic loss.By John E. Drabinski
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Kayna, Charlie, and Christin on V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott
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Kayna, Charlie, and Christin discuss V.S. Naipaul's Middle Passage and two essays by Derek Walcott, "The Muse of History" and "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory."By John E. Drabinski
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V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott - History and Caribbeanness
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A discussion of V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage (1962) in relation to Derek Walcott's "The Muse of History" (1974) and "The Antilles" (1992), focused on how Naipaul's melancholia structures his imagination of West Indian history and how Walcott's meditations on paternity and fragmentation reconfigures that imagination.…
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Twanna, Dalton, and Abby on Sylvia Wynter, Blackness, and Coloniality
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A discussion of two essays by Sylvia Wynter: "Toward the Socigenic Principle" and "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom"By John E. Drabinski
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Sylvia Wynter - Sociogenesis, Consciousness, and the Human
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A discussion of Sylvia Wynter's work and its extension of Fanon's key insights, with particular emphasis on her essays "Toward the Sociogenic Principle" and "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom."By John E. Drabinski
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Lisa, Abby, and Teagan on Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
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Lisa, Abby, and Teagan discuss the significance and meaning of Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks.By John E. Drabinski
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Frantz Fanon - Antiblackness, Language, and World-Making
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A discussion of key themes in Frantz Fanon's 1952 text Black Skin, White Masks, with particular attention to the function of language, sociogeny, and antiblackness in conceiving the possibilities of world-making.By John E. Drabinski
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Charlie, Mary Catherine, and Teagan on René Ménil's Surrealism and Caribbeanness
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A discussion of René Ménil's writings on surrealism and Caribbeanness, with particular focus on his essays from the early 1940s in the journal Tropiques.By John E. Drabinski
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René Ménil - Caribbeanness, Decolonization, and Poetry After the Heteronomic
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A discussion of René Ménil's essays from Tropiques and their vision of a poetics of Caribbean identity and life.By John E. Drabinski
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Kayna, Christin, and Mary Catherine on Suzanne Césaire's Surrealism
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Reflections by Kayna Richards, Christin Washington, and Mary Catherine Contreras on Suzanne Césaire's essay on Surrealism.By John E. Drabinski
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Suzanne Césaire - Surrealism, Civilization, and the Making of a Poetics
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An examination of Suzanne Césaire's essays for Tropiques on surrealism and Frobenius' notion of civilization, with particular attention to how those essays establish the conditions for a possible poetics of the post colony.By John E. Drabinski
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Aimé Césaire - Surrealism, Civilization, and Poetry's Possibility
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A discussion of Aimé Césaire's 1945 essay "Poetry and Knowledge" and 1956 essay "Culture and Colonization," with particular focus on how the poetic word functions as an anti-colonial intervention.By John E. Drabinski
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