drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

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Conversations in Atlantic Theory

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy

106 episodes

1 month ago

These conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.

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drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

Conversations in Atlantic Theory

54 minutes

1 month ago

drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

Dr. drea brown is a queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin, the Smithsonian Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, Bellingham Review and About Place Journal. drea is the author of dear girl: a reckoning, winner of the Gold Line Press 2014 chapbook prize, and co-editor of Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (U Pittsburgh 2021).

In today’s conversation, we discuss her latest monograph Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women where she argues that for Black women, haunting is both a condition and a strategy in lived experiences and literary productions.