Black Feminist Constellations : Dialogue and Translation Across the Americas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Christen A.

Contributor:

Leu, Lorraine.

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Interviews.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.

Summary:

A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region. Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art, and political organizing by Black women everywhere. In essays, poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume's methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black women come together to theorize the world and challenges the notion that the university is the only site where knowledge can emerge. A major work of intellectual history, Black Feminist Constellations amplifies rarely heard voices, centers the uncanonized, and celebrates the overlooked work of Black women.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance | Elizandra Souza

translation by Christen A. Smith

Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance | Elizandra Souza

Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction | Christen A. Smith and Lorraine Leu

Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life

Oriki to Sueli | Elizandra Souza

translation by Luana Moreira Reis

1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical | A conversation between Sueli Carneiro and Christen A. Smith

translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith

2. Black Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South | Sueli Carneiro

translation and editing by Lorraine Leu

3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to "Feminism"? | Florencia Gomes

translation by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez

4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina | A conversation between Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles

introduction and translation by Prisca Gayles

5. Intimate Poetics: World-Making through Cuidado de la Vida (Care of Life) in and beyond the Borders of Colombia | A conversation between Sofía Garzón, Yineth Balanta Mina, and Alysia Mann Carey

introduction by Alysia Mann Carey

translation by Keturah Nichols

6. Black Women's Epistemological Contributions: Afro-Mexican Women in the Twenty-First Century | Itza Amanda Varela Huerta

translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez

7. Black Women's Struggles in Mexico: Anti-racism, Community Organization, and Reparation Politics | A conversation between Rosa María Castro Salinas, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, and Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera

introduction by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera

translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez and Alida Perrine.

8. Beyond Words: Fugitive Embodiments, Creative Praxis, and Trans- Intellectual Genealogies for Black Life | A conversation between Dora Santana and Michaela Machicote

introduction by Michaela Machicote

Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought

9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims | Carole Boyce Davies

10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye's Radical Praxis | D. Alissa Trotz

11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations-Audre Lorde and Andaiye

12. A Brief Introduction to Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) | Bedour Alagraa

13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas | A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa

14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil | Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu

translation by Lorraine Leu

15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women's Insubordinate Geohistories | Lorraine Leu

16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers' Lived Experiences and Ancestralities | Elizandra Souza

Coda: Whirlwind Women/Mulheres redemoinhos | Elizandra Souza

Acknowledgments

Editors, Contributors, and Translators

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781477328323

1477328327

9781477328316

1477328319

OCLC:

1406411425