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Catching Bullets with Her Ass: Matrilineality and the Canadian Dub Poetry Tradition in the Work of d’bi.young anitafrika
(University of the West Indies, 2021-12-20)This article engages in depth with the poetics of Jamaican Canadian dub poet, playwright and performer d’bi young anitafrika. Focusing primarily on anitafrika’s one-woman play blood.claat, it argues that her aesthetic is ... -
Particularism versus Universalism in the History of Comparative Literature
(Elgar, 2021-12-15) -
Documenting hurt: UN, epistemic injustice, and the political ecology of the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti
(2021-01-01)In a reiteration of a long history of pathologization of Haiti and Haitians, the cholera epidemic was framed as endemic, an inevitable outcome of the 2010 earthquake, and a quasi-confirmation of Haiti’s premodern, exceptional ... -
'More than biological': Cherie Dimaline's *The Marrow Thieves* as Countergenetic Fiction.
This article reads Métis writer Cherie Dimaline’s novel The Marrow Thieves as one among a growing number of Indigenous counter-genetic fictions. Dimaline targets two initiatives that reductively define Indigeneity as ... -
Sade and the Novel
(Cambridge University Press, 2021) -
Editorial
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A Donkey’s Wisdom: Can Literature Help Us Respond to the China–India Border Clash?
(2020-08-22)The recent clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley has unleashed a new wave of anti-China sentiment and violent rhetoric in India. Can literature help us respond to the China–India border clash more ... -
Shealing: Post-disaster slow healing and later recovery
(2020-03-13) -
Romanticism’s Longue Durée: 1968 and the projects of theory
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019-11-01)