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Episode Synopsis
Books by M. NourbeSe PhilipBlank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017)She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998)Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 (Mercury Press, 1992)Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury Press, 1991)Other Texts and Writers Featured in the EpisodeKamau BrathwaiteNathaniel (Nate) Mackey and his lecture, “Breath and Precarity”Phillis WheatleyGeorge Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin (University of Michigan Press, 1992)George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (University of Michigan Press, 1991)Claire HarrisDionne BrandHarold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like this Body (House of Anansi, 2013)Austin Clarke (fiction writer)George Elliot Clarke’s argument about Nova Scotia preachers’ sermonsNgũgĩ wa Thiong'oAdrienne Rich’s Of Woman BornDerek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His BrothersOther Relevant LinksSawubonaShonaHeinemann African SeriesTabebuia or Poui Trees of Trinidad and TobagoLionheart (movie)Kikuyu people of KenyaMalinke people (colonized by the French)Afro-futurism
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