Tag: Black Diaspora
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Josephine Baker in the Transatlantic World
Katharina Gerund on different facets of Josephine Baker’s art and activism with a focus on their transatlantic dimension.
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From Farbe Bekennen to Showing Our Colors. Re-reading German Postcolonial Studies
Following the transatlantic traces of Farbe Bekennen (1986), Rita Maricocchi recontextualizes the anthology’s status in German postcolonial studies.
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A Medium of Transatlanticism: Newspapers in the Weimar Era
Jonathan Wipplinger on new tools, resources and reasons to study print media with regard to transatlanticism.
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The Transatlantic Origins of Double Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois in Germany
Ellwood Wiggins traces the resonances of Du Bois’s double consciousness in Friedrich Schiller’s essay »On Naive and Sentimental Poetry« (»Über naive und sentimentale Dichtung«) and suggests that they have important implications for contemporary society.
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Black Transatlantic Literary Studies and the Case of James Baldwin
Gianna Zocco on the role of imagology, intertextuality, and literary archives within Black transatlantic literary studies.