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Neither journal published much work ascribed to women in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Like many nationalist organizations, these literary institutions were patriarchal spaces, underpinned by norms of sociality that marginalized women, and particularly black women. Two questions emerge here. First, what divisions of labour underpinned the journals and shaped their form? I argue that even when not acknowledged as authors, women were involved in the connective and comparative work both journals undertook, notably as translators. Though invisibilized, translation enabled the internationalist projects of both journals: as Brent Hayes Edwards has suggested elsewhere, ‘translation is one of the ways the “turbine” of the cultures of black internationalism is lubricated.’ Second, what did the few women who were published say? Across those pieces, a multiscalar anticolonial sensibility emerged that wrote gendered experience and domestic space into anticolonial politics, and figured hermetic gender categories as themselves a form of colonial enclosure. The multiscarity of these minor voices moved beyond the journals’ dominant discussions about political independence and black and human emancipation, which were typically undertaken in gender-neutral terms. Parsing these journals requires modes of reading alive to these cracks and fragments, to understand the literary journal as a form of thought comprised of—rather than compromised by—its dissonances, polyphony and contestations.
SPEAKER
Alexandra Reza, University of Bristol
Organizer
Karel Pletinck, KWI International Fellow
Information on participating / attending:
PARTICIPATION ONLINE
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Participation in person
This is a public event and participation is free of charge. There is no registration necessary.
Date:
02/17/2025 18:30 - 02/17/2025 20:00
Registration deadline:
02/17/2025
Event venue:
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Language / literature, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
01/28/2025
Sender/author:
Ahlam Youraoui
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event78546
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