Caribbean, Glissant, Middle Passage 21 Mar 2019 Preface to Glissant and the Middle Passage Here is a preview of my new book Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss with University of Minnesota… John Drabinski No Comments
Caribbean 17 Mar 2017 Derek Walcott, In Memory Rest in peace, Derek Walcott. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he needs no new recognition. He was… John Drabinski No Comments
African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Postcolonial, The Profession, Uncategorized, White-American 13 May 2016 Philosophy, Decolonization, #NotAllWhites When I posted this response to Garfield and Van Norden’s piece to my site, I figured it was a small… John Drabinski 2 Comments
African-American, Caribbean 08 Nov 2014 Privacy, coloniality, identity Here are my remarks from the roundtable discussion on James Baldwin and Privacy at the American Studies Association meeting in… John Drabinski 4 Comments
Caribbean 21 Jul 2014 Beauty, pain, and A Small Place I’ve been stuck in a particular section of this project - a long critical introduction to a new translation of… John Drabinski 2 Comments
Caribbean 20 Jul 2014 On Fanon’s birthday Today is what would have been Frantz Fanon’s 89th birthday - born in 1925, died in 1961, but in that… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Caribbean 19 Jun 2014 Grandin on slavery and freedom From Greg Grandin's fantastic The Empire of Necessity (Holt, 2013) "Writing in the 1970s, Yale’s Edmund Morgan was one of… John Drabinski No Comments
Caribbean 03 Feb 2014 Édouard Glissant, in memory On the anniversary of his passing, I'm posting here part of a piece I wrote on the occasion of his… John Drabinski No Comments
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial, The Profession 21 Dec 2013 Derrida, Eurocentrism, decolonization While I am not the biggest advocate of Aimé Césaire's work, I've always been taken in - in ways that… John Drabinski 1 Comment
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial 12 Dec 2013 Decolonizing the colonizer: three aspects What does it mean to decolonize the colonizer? In a previous post, I asked the question - which has largely… John Drabinski 1 Comment
