USA Africa Dialogue Series - Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International

Palimpsest - Biannual A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
Click on image to enlarge	T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - Editor Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers - Editor   Subscriptions and back issues can be ordered through The Sheridan Press
Summary
A biannual journal covering women, gender, and the Black International. Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. A partnership between Vanderbilt University’s Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and the State University of New York Press, the goal of Palimpsest is to engender further explorations of the Black International as a liberation narrative and Black Internationalism as an insurgent consciousness formed over and against retrogressive practices embodied in slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and globalization, from the early modern period to the present. Drawing on the traditions of African diasporic studies and feminist/womanist thought, the journal will feature analyses of Black women's histories, experiences, and cultural productions. More specifically, the editors solicit work that considers the intersections of race, class, gender, color, and sexuality in the histories, social and political movements, expressive cultures, spiritual formations, and philosophical thoughts of women as well as the ways in which women locate themselves, and have been located, on the map of human geography. Scholars from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged to contribute, and a primary consideration for inclusion is an essay’s capacity to resonate with and critically engage the interdisciplinary fields of African American and Diaspora studies and women’s and gender studies. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University. Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers is Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and History at Vanderbilt University.   Editorial Information(PDF)
Table of Contents Volume 1, Issue 1 Editor’s Introduction T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson Essays “For full freedom of… colored women in Africa, Asia, and these United States”: Black Women Radical and the “Practice of a Black Women’s International” Erik McDuffie Fulani’s Tools and Results: Development and Black Empowerment Omar Ali Literature and the Meta-Psychoanalysis of race: After and With Fanon Jean-Paul Rocchi Gender, Class, and the Performance of a Black (Anti) Enlightenment: Resistance of David Walker and Sojourner Truth Sarah Cervenak The Narrative Absence of Interiority in Black Writing: Suffering Female Bodies in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” Sabine Broeck Poetic License Stephanie Pruitt Adelia’s Lesson Bell’s Work Song #6 Bell’s Work Song #42 Incantation for Escape The Teeth and Tongue Thirteen Ways of Drafting a Response Retrospectives The Revolutionary Spirit of Toni Cade Bambara Thabiti Lewis Euqshan Palcy: “Creative Dissent, Artistic Reckoning” Tricia Danielle Keaton An Open Letter from Paris The Guerlain Affair: Odorless French Racism Rokhaya Diallo Book Nook: Reviews Theifing Sugar from the Island Beneath the Sea: New Literature on/from the Caribbean Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Theifing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in the Caribbean Literature by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Reviews by Valerie Orlando Hands on the Freedom Plow. Edited by Faith S. Holseart, Martha Prescod, Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy Zellner Review by Tarik A. Smith The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation by Marcus Wood Review by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie The Art of Engagement Forum Editors’ Note: New technologies, Academic Freedom, and the Archive Erotica or Thanatica?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes, A Review Essay of Shayne Lee’s “Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture” Tamura A. Lomax A Critique of Protectionist Petulance Shayne Lee Contributors Volume 1, Issue 2 Editor’s Introduction Black Male Feminism 101 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers Guest Editor’s Introduction Transforming Black Men In Feminism David Ikard and Mark Anthony Neal Essays Yearning to Be What We Might Have Been: Queering Black Male Feminism Eric Darnell Pritchard Easier Said Than Done: Making Black Feminism Transformative for Black Men David Ikard Bruised and Misunderstood: Translating Black Feminist Acts in the Work of Tyler Perry Nicole Hodges Persley Feminism and the Streets: Urban Fiction and the Quest for Female Independence in the Era of Transactional Sexuality Beauty Bragg and David Ikard Finding Tea Cake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood Mark Anthony Neal Reviews Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip Hop by Michael Jefferies Review by Regina Bradley “Quaring” Black Manhood in Brother to Brother: A Film Review Essay Review by Jenise Hudson A Commentary Hip hop Feminism and Failure Michael Jefferies Poetic License After All That Happened Conjuring Hyssop and Moving Once More Houston A. Baker Contributors

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