Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Biographic Data
| ID | 215558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Benedicty-Kokken |
| SIGNATURE | BENEDICTY-KOKKEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Esclavage, religions et politique en Haïti, by Laënnec Hurbon
From the get-go, this book proposes two monumentally innovative critical gestures. The first is that European secularism is based on a Hegelian notion of “state,” which informs a European notion of the secular. In fact, Laënnec Hurbon proposes that the European “State” is an unacknowledged apotheosis of a certain form of Protestantism whose teleology is to consecrate capitalism and as such to discursively mitigate the moral implications of transa…
Maïwenn’s Pragmatisms
This essay is motivated by a befuddlement as to why Maïwenn’s work has not received more critical attention even though she is one of the few female directors to successfully maintain a career in a still extremely male-dominated profession. While there has been doubt in the public sphere as to whether Maïwenn is or is not ‘feminist,’ we demonstrate that her œuvre eruditely, provocatively, even problematically engages the theoretical legacies of S…
Translating Blackness
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña engages a rethinking of “blackness” so as to historicize “Black Latinidad in the context of global blackness and in relation to hegemonic blackness” (p. 5). The book offers a veritable manifesto on what it means to rigorously think alongside the challenges posed by Afropessimism—itself as a “contemporary intellectual tradition” (Ajari, “tradition intellectuelle contemporaine” in Noirceur: Race, genre, …
A Regarded Self
“Must a novel about a woman—about a Caribbean woman—present her righteousness in order for her to be counted among rights-deserving human subjects?” (p. 33) asks Kaiama L. Glover, in her meditation on how we as scholars of Caribbean thought narrate our contemporary critical considerations of intellectual histories and present-day public spheres. In A Regarded Self, she argues that any claim on community in “slavery’s long wake” means grappling wi…
Ijan(s) / Urgence(s) by Kolektif2D (review)
Reviewed by: Ijan(s) / Urgence(s) by Kolektif2D Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Ijan(s)/Urgence(s). By Kolektif2D. Fotopaklé, vol. 2. Port-au-Prince: FOKAL, 2021. ISBN 978-99970-972-1-7. $25. 344 pp. Contact: https://www.fokal.org/en/. Ijan(s)/Urgence(s) is a book by Kolektif2D, often referred to as K2D, a collective of photographers and photojournalists created in October 2014.1 As a group of young photographers, part of the generations keen on not …
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue
The present proposed volume takes as its fulcrum the concept of gender, and in its most simple iteration asks: What happens when, we - that is, the varied individuals and communities who take a vested interest in the collections housed by ethnographic museums - think more deliberately from the objects in our museums? How might we theorize gender in ways that allow us to think our relationships to each other in Povinelli's (2011) 'otherwise' ways?…
The Sacred Art of Reading
Anne Margaret Castro's The Sacred Art of Reading theorizes reading “Afro-diasporic texts.” The book's specific corpus includes works that have been written and circulated in the public sphere through print culture, yet which also pass through assemblages of the sacred in the complex meaning systems that inform the Black Atlantic. Castro's theorization of the act of reading takes place along three intersecting axes: first, texts themselves (sermon…
The Citizenship Experiment
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism by Marlene L. Daut
Reviewed by: Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism by Marlene L. Daut Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism. By Marlene L. Daut. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ISBN 978-1-137-47969-3. 244 pp. $24.99/21.39€ e-book, $34.99/29.11€ paperback. An absorbing and riveting read, Marlene Daut's Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism is a scholarly feat. Organized…
Direct Democracy
Vodou in Haitian Memory
Despite the heterogeneity of topics in these two volumes, Celucien Joseph, Nixon Cleophat, and their contributors have mindfully nurtured a specific approach that asserts Vodou as exemplary of an ethos of liberation theology (Vodou in Haitian Memory) and that privileges a comparativist methodology (Vodou in the Haitian Experience).Most excitingly, they illustrate two essential facts: first, that any erudition of Haitian studies must include an un…
Being contemporary
Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones
Reviewed by: Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques by Michal Obszyński Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques. By Michal Obszyński. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2016. ISBN 9789004309128. 278 pp. $78 US. Print and E-book. Michal Obszyński's Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophone…
“When the Details Are No Longer Too Much”
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith
“When the Details Are No Longer Too Much”
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith
Vodou in Haitian Memory
Despite the heterogeneity of topics in these two volumes, Celucien Joseph, Nixon Cleophat, and their contributors have mindfully nurtured a specific approach that asserts Vodou as exemplary of an ethos of liberation theology (Vodou in Haitian Memory) and that privileges a comparativist methodology (Vodou in the Haitian Experience).Most excitingly, they illustrate two essential facts: first, that any erudition of Haitian studies must include an un…
Being contemporary
Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones
Reviewed by: Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques by Michal Obszyński Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques. By Michal Obszyński. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2016. ISBN 9789004309128. 278 pp. $78 US. Print and E-book. Michal Obszyński's Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophone…
Direct Democracy
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism by Marlene L. Daut
Reviewed by: Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism by Marlene L. Daut Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism. By Marlene L. Daut. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ISBN 978-1-137-47969-3. 244 pp. $24.99/21.39€ e-book, $34.99/29.11€ paperback. An absorbing and riveting read, Marlene Daut's Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism is a scholarly feat. Organized…
The Sacred Art of Reading
Anne Margaret Castro's The Sacred Art of Reading theorizes reading “Afro-diasporic texts.” The book's specific corpus includes works that have been written and circulated in the public sphere through print culture, yet which also pass through assemblages of the sacred in the complex meaning systems that inform the Black Atlantic. Castro's theorization of the act of reading takes place along three intersecting axes: first, texts themselves (sermon…
The Citizenship Experiment
Ijan(s) / Urgence(s) by Kolektif2D (review)
Reviewed by: Ijan(s) / Urgence(s) by Kolektif2D Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Ijan(s)/Urgence(s). By Kolektif2D. Fotopaklé, vol. 2. Port-au-Prince: FOKAL, 2021. ISBN 978-99970-972-1-7. $25. 344 pp. Contact: https://www.fokal.org/en/. Ijan(s)/Urgence(s) is a book by Kolektif2D, often referred to as K2D, a collective of photographers and photojournalists created in October 2014.1 As a group of young photographers, part of the generations keen on not …
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue
The present proposed volume takes as its fulcrum the concept of gender, and in its most simple iteration asks: What happens when, we - that is, the varied individuals and communities who take a vested interest in the collections housed by ethnographic museums - think more deliberately from the objects in our museums? How might we theorize gender in ways that allow us to think our relationships to each other in Povinelli's (2011) 'otherwise' ways?…
A Regarded Self
“Must a novel about a woman—about a Caribbean woman—present her righteousness in order for her to be counted among rights-deserving human subjects?” (p. 33) asks Kaiama L. Glover, in her meditation on how we as scholars of Caribbean thought narrate our contemporary critical considerations of intellectual histories and present-day public spheres. In A Regarded Self, she argues that any claim on community in “slavery’s long wake” means grappling wi…
Esclavage, religions et politique en Haïti, by Laënnec Hurbon
From the get-go, this book proposes two monumentally innovative critical gestures. The first is that European secularism is based on a Hegelian notion of “state,” which informs a European notion of the secular. In fact, Laënnec Hurbon proposes that the European “State” is an unacknowledged apotheosis of a certain form of Protestantism whose teleology is to consecrate capitalism and as such to discursively mitigate the moral implications of transa…
Maïwenn’s Pragmatisms
This essay is motivated by a befuddlement as to why Maïwenn’s work has not received more critical attention even though she is one of the few female directors to successfully maintain a career in a still extremely male-dominated profession. While there has been doubt in the public sphere as to whether Maïwenn is or is not ‘feminist,’ we demonstrate that her œuvre eruditely, provocatively, even problematically engages the theoretical legacies of S…
Translating Blackness
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña engages a rethinking of “blackness” so as to historicize “Black Latinidad in the context of global blackness and in relation to hegemonic blackness” (p. 5). The book offers a veritable manifesto on what it means to rigorously think alongside the challenges posed by Afropessimism—itself as a “contemporary intellectual tradition” (Ajari, “tradition intellectuelle contemporaine” in Noirceur: Race, genre, …
Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · History (4 works)