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African American Worldmaking in the Long Nineteenth Century

November 01, 2019 Verena Adamik, Yasmin Künze, and guests Season 1 Episode 4
Talking American Studies
African American Worldmaking in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Talking American Studies
African American Worldmaking in the Long Nineteenth Century
Nov 01, 2019 Season 1 Episode 4
Verena Adamik, Yasmin Künze, and guests

We’re talking American Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Postcolonial studies, subjectivity and agency, HBCUs, Monticello, Sally Hemings, Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn, --- and that’s just the beginning. Featuring Chet'la Sebree (Bucknell University), Erik Redling (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Michael Drexler (Bucknell University), Nele Sawallisch (Obama Institute, University of Mainz), Nicole Waller (University of Potsdam) and Niya Bates (International Center for Jefferson Studies). Hosted by Yasmin Künze & Verena Adamik (University of Potsdam). 

Homepage Symposium

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/workshops-conferences/symposium-african-american-worldmaking-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/

Works Cited

Drexler, Michael. The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr. 2014.

Drexler, Michael. The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States. 2016.

Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. 2013.

Redling, Erik. Translating Jazz into Poetry: From Mimesis to Metaphor. 2017.

Redling, Erik. “Speaking of Dialect”: Translating Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales Into Postmodern Systems of Signification. 2006.

Risser, James. Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s. 1999.

Sawallisch, Nele. Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid Nineteenth Century. Transcript, 2019.

Sebree, Chet’la. Mistress. New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2019.

Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. 2015.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, et al. Imperative Zur Neuerfindung Des Planeten = Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet. 2013.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England. London: John Snow, 1855. Documenting the American South. 2001. Web. 25 Aug. 2012.

Warren, Richard. Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Rev. Richard Warren, (A Fugitive Slave). Written By Himself. Hamilton: Christian Advocate, 1856. Internet Archive. Edmonton. Web. 4 March 2013. 

Music Intro/Outro

Title: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.com

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Show Notes

We’re talking American Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Postcolonial studies, subjectivity and agency, HBCUs, Monticello, Sally Hemings, Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn, --- and that’s just the beginning. Featuring Chet'la Sebree (Bucknell University), Erik Redling (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Michael Drexler (Bucknell University), Nele Sawallisch (Obama Institute, University of Mainz), Nicole Waller (University of Potsdam) and Niya Bates (International Center for Jefferson Studies). Hosted by Yasmin Künze & Verena Adamik (University of Potsdam). 

Homepage Symposium

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/workshops-conferences/symposium-african-american-worldmaking-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/

Works Cited

Drexler, Michael. The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr. 2014.

Drexler, Michael. The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States. 2016.

Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. 2013.

Redling, Erik. Translating Jazz into Poetry: From Mimesis to Metaphor. 2017.

Redling, Erik. “Speaking of Dialect”: Translating Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales Into Postmodern Systems of Signification. 2006.

Risser, James. Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s. 1999.

Sawallisch, Nele. Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid Nineteenth Century. Transcript, 2019.

Sebree, Chet’la. Mistress. New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2019.

Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. 2015.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, et al. Imperative Zur Neuerfindung Des Planeten = Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet. 2013.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England. London: John Snow, 1855. Documenting the American South. 2001. Web. 25 Aug. 2012.

Warren, Richard. Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Rev. Richard Warren, (A Fugitive Slave). Written By Himself. Hamilton: Christian Advocate, 1856. Internet Archive. Edmonton. Web. 4 March 2013. 

Music Intro/Outro

Title: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.com