Franca Bernabei
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franca Bernabei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernabei |
| SIGNATURE | BERNABEI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Archiving Black Diasporas
The three Black women thinkers and authors whose images I have selected for this essay deploy the portraits of young Black girls, taken in diverse contexts and times, as the medium for enacting a form of countervisuality that “seeks to resituate the terms on which reality is to be understood” (Mirzoeff 2011, 28) and envision (image) a different history of the present. In “speaking for” and “about” (ibid., xv) silenced or subaltern histories, Afri…
Transatlantic poetics of haunting
This essay discusses issues relevant to current redefinitions of the Black Atlantic through a comparative reading of the novels At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999) and Le Livre d'Emma (2001) written, respectively, by the Trinidad-born Dionne Brand and the Haitian-born Marie-Célie Agnant, both of whom emigrated to Canada in 1970. Agnant's novel is primarily concerned with exposing the legacy of pain, abjection, and silence that has been pass…
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Transatlantic poetics of haunting
This essay discusses issues relevant to current redefinitions of the Black Atlantic through a comparative reading of the novels At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999) and Le Livre d'Emma (2001) written, respectively, by the Trinidad-born Dionne Brand and the Haitian-born Marie-Célie Agnant, both of whom emigrated to Canada in 1970. Agnant's novel is primarily concerned with exposing the legacy of pain, abjection, and silence that has been pass…
Archiving Black Diasporas
The three Black women thinkers and authors whose images I have selected for this essay deploy the portraits of young Black girls, taken in diverse contexts and times, as the medium for enacting a form of countervisuality that “seeks to resituate the terms on which reality is to be understood” (Mirzoeff 2011, 28) and envision (image) a different history of the present. In “speaking for” and “about” (ibid., xv) silenced or subaltern histories, Afri…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · White (mutation (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)