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Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe (2022) Seeing, hearing, breathing, and witnessing from the Africana Center at Cornell : an afterword. In: Farred, Grant, (ed.) Africana Studies : Theoretical Futures. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, pp. 163-174. ISBN 9781439923078
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Abstract
Anniversaries are useful for they help us return to a specific moment, such as the creation of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in 1969. The temporal framing offered by anniversaries is often a pretext to take stock of a particular sequence of events; anniversaries are subterfuges to remember, commemorate, and pay tribute but also disinter cumbersome corpses. Anniversaries test our vigilance and ability to submit these corpses to renewed autopsies. The term “Africana” reflects the worlding of Africa and the re- and translocation of its objects, subjects, and discourses within a diasporic network of relations (Hallen 2009, 8n2). From African to Africana studies, one can therefore identify a definitional and heuristic shift: like their postcolonial and decolonial counterparts, Africana scholars are engaged in the dismantling of (neo)colonial cartographies and in the creation of what Pheng Cheah calls “a world”— that is, a creative and discursive entity and realm of possibilities that are not reducible to the “epistemic violence” of “canonical literature” and the other “processes” shaping “how colonized subjects see themselves” and continue to see themselves “after decolonization” (2016, 19). Africana studies are concerned with Africa but also with the many cultural entanglements generated by African displacements and reterritorializations before and, above all, after the middle passage. Africana studies, then, provide the basis for analyzing African pasts and presents in Africa and beyond and anticipating future possibilities.
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Africa -- Study and teaching, Black people -- Race identity , Decolonization , Decolonization in literature, Language and languages -- Political aspects, Languages in contact , Postcolonialism | ||||||
| Publisher: | Temple University Press | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Philadelphia, PA | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781439923078 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Africana Studies : Theoretical Futures | ||||||
| Editor: | Farred, Grant | ||||||
| Official Date: | June 2022 | ||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 163-174 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “Seeing, Hearing, Breathing, and Witnessing From The Africana Center at Cornell : An Afterword” from Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures by Grant Farred. Used by permission of Temple University Press. ©2022 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved. | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Temple University |
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