African, African-American, Caribbean, Cinema, Postcolonial 23 Aug 2023 Cinema of the Black Atlantic – Syllabus AASD350 - Wednesdays 2-4:30 - fall semester 2023 This course (syllabus: HERE) examines the cinema of the black Atlantic world… John Drabinski
African, African-American, Caribbean, Postcolonial 01 Feb 2022 On the Fecundity of Small Places Here is the pre-print of my essay "On the Fecundity of Small Places," due out in a volume Africana Studies: Theoretical… John Drabinski
Caribbean, Glissant 10 May 2021 Reply to Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez’s review of Glissant and the Middle Passage This is a really thoughtful and interesting review. I appreciate it so much because it engages with the possibilities of… John Drabinski
African-American, Caribbean, Glissant, Middle Passage 25 Feb 2021 Conversation with J. Kameron Carter on Glissant and the Middle Passage The Hutchins Center at Harvard University posted the recording of my conversation with J. Kameron Carter about my book Glissant… John Drabinski
African-American, Caribbean, Conquest, Latin America, Middle Passage, Teaching 24 Jan 2021 Syllabus: Imagining ‘the Americas’ Here is a final draft version of the syllabus for my S'21 course "Imagining 'the Americas.'" The course engages the… John Drabinski
Caribbean, Essay Drafts, European, Postcolonial 07 Dec 2020 DRAFT: Citing and Siting the Afropostmodern: Lyotard and the Black Atlantic Here is a draft of a new essay on the afropostmodern, in which I refer to parts of Jean-François Lyotard's… John Drabinski
African, African-American, Caribbean, Essay Drafts, Glissant, Postcolonial 03 Dec 2020 DRAFT: On the Fecundity of Small Places Here is a draft of an essay entitled "On the Fecundity of Small Places," which I've written for a volume… John Drabinski
African-American, Caribbean, Courses 30 Aug 2019 Black Existentialism – revised syllabus Here is my revised syllabus for a course I've taught a bunch of times: Black Existentialism. This revision includes more… John Drabinski 1 Comment
African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Middle Passage, Postcolonial 28 Apr 2019 ReBIT19 – Pessimism as Interpretative Frame The second annual symposium under the rubric Re-Thinking the Black Intellectual Tradition was held on March 30th, 2019. We gathered… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Caribbean 28 Apr 2019 The Poetics of Beautiful Blackness Broadly: How can the abjection of blackness under regimes of anti-blackness be (or has it already been) reversed, disrupted, disputed,… John Drabinski No Comments
