This course examines less dominant ways of seeing, sounding, and feeling Jamaica. Organized around three major thematics, we will study local and transnational representations of the island’s various raced and classed subjects.
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Seminar 1: Race
Mon, May 6, 20246:00 pm to 8:00 pm -
Seminar 2: Catastrophes
Tue, May 7, 20246:00 pm to 8:00 pm -
Seminar 3: Gender and Sexuality: Disrupting Dominant Discourses
Wed, May 8, 20246:00 pm to 8:00 pm -
Public Talk: The Arts of Independence
Thu, May 9, 20246:00 pm
Donette Francis is the Director for the Center for Global Black Studies at the University of Miami. Her research and writing investigate place, aesthetic, and cultural politics in the African Diaspora. Professor Francis is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature. She is currently working on a book project on Miami. Creole Miami: Black Arts at the Hemispheric Crossroads, a sociocultural history of Black arts practice in Miami from 1970s to present. She is co-founder of the Jamaican Cultural Political Modern Project, which convenes symposia and publishes essays that rethink Jamaica’s historiography. Essays from the proceedings on The Jamaican 1950s, 1960s, 1970s are published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.