African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds

Geneviève Fabre is professor emerita at the University Paris 7 and director of the Center for African American and Diasporas Studies.Klaus Benesch is Professor of English and Chair of American Studies at the University of Bayreuth (Germany).

• INTRODUCTIONGeneviève FABRE/Klaus BENESCH: The Concept of African Diaspora(s): A Critical ReassessmentTHINKING DIASPORASBrent HAYES EDWARDS: The Uses of ‘Diaspora’David PALUMBO-LIU: Against Race: Yes, But At What Cost?Michel FEITH: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Signifying Monkey: A Diasporic Critical MythDIASPORIC HISTORICAL SITESSylvia FREY: Cultural Migrations: A Time-&-Space Outline of Black Atlantic ProtestantismSujaya DHANVANTARI: French Revolutionary Song in the Haitian Revolution 1789-1804Winston JAMES: From John Brown Russwurm to George Padmore: The Anglophone Caribbean Diaspora and Pan-African ProjectsLITERARY WRITINGS OF DIASPORACarla L. PETERSON: Modernity and Historical Consciousness in the “New Negro” Novel at the Nadir (1892-1903)Klaus BENESCH: Notes from Underground: William Demby’s The Catacombs and the Diasporic Roots of African-American ModernismKathie BIRAT: The Conundrum of Home: The Diasporic Imagination in The Nature of Blood by Caryl PhillipsSeth MOGLEN: Modernism in the Black Diaspora: Langston Hughes and the “broken cubes of Picasso”VISUAL ART AND PERFORMANCEAmy KIRSCHKE: Du Bois, The Crisis and Images of Africa and the DiasporaIris SCHMEISSER: “Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands”: Ethiopianism, Egyptomania, and the Arts of the Harlem RenaissanceJudith BETTELHEIM: Carnaval of Los Congos in Portobelo, Panama: Feathered Men and QueensPOSTSCRIPTTom FEELINGS: The Middle Passage: A Visual NarrativeAPPENDIXPhyllis B. BISCHOF : The Power and Place of Black Diasporan Autobiography : An Annotated Bibliography of Autobiographies

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