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
European 23 Oct 2014 Levinas and after The following is my response to comments by Sonia Sikka and Kris Sealey at the 23 October book session on… John Drabinski 5 Comments
African, Postcolonial 17 Jan 2014 Memory of Lumumba Today, 17 January, is the anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961. Saying it is the 53rd anniversary… 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
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial 09 Dec 2013 On decolonizing the colonizer One of the central questions of my Levinas and the Postcolonial is why we haven't asked what should be a very… John Drabinski 2 Comments
Caribbean, Postcolonial 20 Nov 2013 Introducing Naipaul and Fanon This is the draft introduction to my essay "Martinique Between Naipaul and Fanon," which I have written about in a… John Drabinski No Comments
Caribbean, Postcolonial 19 Nov 2013 Sighs and history The meaning of Caribbean history is too much for any single post, to say the least (ha), but let me… John Drabinski No Comments
Caribbean, Postcolonial 18 Nov 2013 Fanon’s Martinique How does Fanon understand Martinique, and therefore the Caribbean as such? This question concerns both how Fanon's work works as… John Drabinski No Comments
Caribbean 17 Nov 2013 Writing, place, tradition In "Reading and Writing," there is a short meditation on Joseph Conrad's work, work with which he feels a surprising… John Drabinski No Comments
