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Black Existential Freedom looks at the ways in which Black cultural productions reflect a constant struggle for freedom and a refusal to surrender to the destructive forces of dehumanization. This book offers a counter-narrative to current Afro-Pessimist theorizations of Blackness that choose the power of death and nihilism over life.
List of contents
Introduction
I: Diasporic Blues
- Chapter 1: Black in Blue: Subjectivity, catastrophe, and memory in Guy Deslauriers' The Middle Passage
- Chapter 2: Sing to Be Free
- Chapter 3: Haiti 2010, Life Arises from the Rubble
II: Come on Children of the Homeland, the Day of Glory has Arrived
- Chapter 4: Black in Blue, Red, and White
- Chapter 5: "COMMUNITY" and "COLOR" : Black in Blue White and Red
- Chapter 6: I Remember Therefore I suffer/I Remember Therefore I am
III: I called from the depth
- Chapter 7: Human/Non-Human: The Negative Utopia of Sub-Saharan African Migration
- Chapter 8: The other Nègre: Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in Uganda and South Africa
Conclusion
About the author
Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of L'Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l'Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and Melancholia Africana l'indispensable dépassement de la condition noire (2010), which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities, a documentary on race, identity and citizenship in contemporary France.
