Nicole Louise Willson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Louise Willson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Willson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLSON N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lancashire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5935-9075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sartorial insurgencies
This study interrogates the trope of the “tropical temptress” that dominated colonial print culture. Encoded in textual accounts reliant on this trope, it posits, is a subtextual fear of Black female agency. To excavate and rehabilitate the voices of women that have been both occluded and co-opted by the colonialist archive, it recognises a need to look beyond. It takes its cue from Danielle Skeehan, who seeks out traces of Black female insurgenc…
Vestiges of Black Internationalism
The siege led by the Continental Army to reclaim Savannah from British forces in the fall of 1779 is remembered as one of the most disastrous battles of the American Revolutionary War. However, greater carnage was circumvented by a legion of (largely) free Black Chasseurs Volontaires recruited from the colony of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti). Their role proved strategically vital, and a monument erected in Savannah’s Franklin Square today pay…
“Workers + Warriors”
For this special issue, we bring together an array of interdisciplinary international scholars who are working across the fields of Black studies, African diasporic studies, slavery studies, American studies, and memory studies. They debate, destabilize, interrogate, and reshape widely known and accepted methodologies within literary studies, art history, visual culture, history, intellectual history, politics, sociology, and material and print c…
I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros”
Unmaking the tricolore
The Haitian Revolution was the most radical antislavery and anticolonial struggle of the modern Atlantic World and the only successful slave revolution. Yet the dominant, white-authored colonial archive, which privileges written texts over forms of non-literary expression that flourished in the archive of slavery, conspicuously occludes the historical agents at its locus. While Michel-Rolph Trouillot set a precedent for rehabilitating these histo…
People without Shoes
Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was one of the principal trailblazers of the Harlem Renaissance, paving the course for an artistic and social revolution propelled by racial uplift. This black aesthetic found expression through multiple channels across the Atlantic. In 1931, Hughes travelled to Haiti, where he met the Haitian writer and politician, Jacques Roumain (1907-1944). This encounter sparked an artistic alliance fortified by a shared abhorrenc…
The Realm of Maiden Beauty
Using a creative interdisciplinary method of enquiry, this article seeks to exorcise the spectres of revolutionary creolisation embedded in George Washington Cable’s 1880 novel The Grandissimes. It probes, in particular, the secreted traces of the Creole diaspora triggered by the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, and attempts to peel back the manifold layers of ideological occlusion embedded in the (ostensibly white, Anglo-American) narrative fram…
I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros”
The Realm of Maiden Beauty
Using a creative interdisciplinary method of enquiry, this article seeks to exorcise the spectres of revolutionary creolisation embedded in George Washington Cable’s 1880 novel The Grandissimes. It probes, in particular, the secreted traces of the Creole diaspora triggered by the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, and attempts to peel back the manifold layers of ideological occlusion embedded in the (ostensibly white, Anglo-American) narrative fram…
People without Shoes
Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was one of the principal trailblazers of the Harlem Renaissance, paving the course for an artistic and social revolution propelled by racial uplift. This black aesthetic found expression through multiple channels across the Atlantic. In 1931, Hughes travelled to Haiti, where he met the Haitian writer and politician, Jacques Roumain (1907-1944). This encounter sparked an artistic alliance fortified by a shared abhorrenc…
The Realm of Maiden Beauty
Using a creative interdisciplinary method of enquiry, this article seeks to exorcise the spectres of revolutionary creolisation embedded in George Washington Cable’s 1880 novel The Grandissimes. It probes, in particular, the secreted traces of the Creole diaspora triggered by the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, and attempts to peel back the manifold layers of ideological occlusion embedded in the (ostensibly white, Anglo-American) narrative fram…
Vestiges of Black Internationalism
The siege led by the Continental Army to reclaim Savannah from British forces in the fall of 1779 is remembered as one of the most disastrous battles of the American Revolutionary War. However, greater carnage was circumvented by a legion of (largely) free Black Chasseurs Volontaires recruited from the colony of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti). Their role proved strategically vital, and a monument erected in Savannah’s Franklin Square today pay…
“Workers + Warriors”
For this special issue, we bring together an array of interdisciplinary international scholars who are working across the fields of Black studies, African diasporic studies, slavery studies, American studies, and memory studies. They debate, destabilize, interrogate, and reshape widely known and accepted methodologies within literary studies, art history, visual culture, history, intellectual history, politics, sociology, and material and print c…
I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros”
Unmaking the tricolore
The Haitian Revolution was the most radical antislavery and anticolonial struggle of the modern Atlantic World and the only successful slave revolution. Yet the dominant, white-authored colonial archive, which privileges written texts over forms of non-literary expression that flourished in the archive of slavery, conspicuously occludes the historical agents at its locus. While Michel-Rolph Trouillot set a precedent for rehabilitating these histo…
Sartorial insurgencies
This study interrogates the trope of the “tropical temptress” that dominated colonial print culture. Encoded in textual accounts reliant on this trope, it posits, is a subtextual fear of Black female agency. To excavate and rehabilitate the voices of women that have been both occluded and co-opted by the colonialist archive, it recognises a need to look beyond. It takes its cue from Danielle Skeehan, who seeks out traces of Black female insurgenc…
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)