Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Biographic Data
| ID | 2185030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bibi Bakare-Yusuf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bibi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakare-Yusuf |
| SIGNATURE | BAKARE-YUSUF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist Book Publishing Today
In this piece, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, publisher of Cassava Republic Press based in Abuja (Nigeria) and London (UK), discusses with Simidele Dosekun her founding and continued visions for the press, how these translate into the daily management and operations of the business, and the opportunities and challenges publishing presents for feminist, Black and African political purposes, including transnationally. We also discuss what it means to run and b…
Embodiment and the Lived Experience of Diaspora
Diaspora and embodiment are terms that have separately gained currency in contemporary critical thought. However, the relations between them are inadequately theorized. Diaspora should not be taken to be an abstraction concerning the spacing of the subject across time. This movement away from and to a place can only be understood via a third mediating term: “the body” or “embodiment.” Theorization of black diasporic identity and expressive agency…
The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror
A survey of fourteen African publishers
Scattered limbs, scattered stories: The silence of Biafra
This essay examines the relationship between trauma, memory and the body in the Nigerian Civil War. It notes the absence of first-hand narratives of the experience of living through Biafra and, drawing on the work of Scarry, suggests that the silence in the archive indicates a trauma that has yet to be worked through and resolved. This unresolved trauma creates a perpetual unease, distrust and lack of belief in the Nigerian project amongst Igbos.…
Rethinking diasporicity: Embodiment, emotion, and the displaced origin
This paper explores how Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology can be used to articulate an account of the lived experience of diasporicity that contrasts sharply with the abstract formulations of post-structuralism and post-colonialism. Becoming displaced from an originary time and space is the characteristic of being human. Therefore, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy provides the outline of a universal diasporic experience. The question that arise…
Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
(2006). Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Fashion Theory: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 461-483
Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Book Review| October 01 2006 Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bibi Bakare-Yusuf; Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Small Axe 1 October 2006; 10 (3): 161–173. doi: https:/…
I love myself when I am dancing and carrying on: Refiguring the agency of black women's creative expression in Jamaican Dancehall culture
This paper develops an account of black women's contribution to the development and continuity of Jamaican Dancehall culture. It focuses on what lies beyond a view dominated by oppression or a male viewpoint. I explore how lower class women bring creative expressions to bear on their experience of pain, negation and oppression, by insisting on the priority of their body's erotic agency. Through a combination of place, corporeal practices and imag…
‘The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror’
Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
(2006). Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Fashion Theory: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 461-483
Rethinking diasporicity: Embodiment, emotion, and the displaced origin
This paper explores how Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology can be used to articulate an account of the lived experience of diasporicity that contrasts sharply with the abstract formulations of post-structuralism and post-colonialism. Becoming displaced from an originary time and space is the characteristic of being human. Therefore, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy provides the outline of a universal diasporic experience. The question that arise…
Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Book Review| October 01 2006 Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bibi Bakare-Yusuf; Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Small Axe 1 October 2006; 10 (3): 161–173. doi: https:/…
I love myself when I am dancing and carrying on: Refiguring the agency of black women's creative expression in Jamaican Dancehall culture
This paper develops an account of black women's contribution to the development and continuity of Jamaican Dancehall culture. It focuses on what lies beyond a view dominated by oppression or a male viewpoint. I explore how lower class women bring creative expressions to bear on their experience of pain, negation and oppression, by insisting on the priority of their body's erotic agency. Through a combination of place, corporeal practices and imag…
A survey of fourteen African publishers
‘The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror’
I love myself when I am dancing and carrying on: Refiguring the agency of black women's creative expression in Jamaican Dancehall culture
This paper develops an account of black women's contribution to the development and continuity of Jamaican Dancehall culture. It focuses on what lies beyond a view dominated by oppression or a male viewpoint. I explore how lower class women bring creative expressions to bear on their experience of pain, negation and oppression, by insisting on the priority of their body's erotic agency. Through a combination of place, corporeal practices and imag…
Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
(2006). Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Fashion Theory: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 461-483
Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Book Review| October 01 2006 Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bibi Bakare-Yusuf; Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Small Axe 1 October 2006; 10 (3): 161–173. doi: https:/…
Rethinking diasporicity: Embodiment, emotion, and the displaced origin
This paper explores how Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology can be used to articulate an account of the lived experience of diasporicity that contrasts sharply with the abstract formulations of post-structuralism and post-colonialism. Becoming displaced from an originary time and space is the characteristic of being human. Therefore, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy provides the outline of a universal diasporic experience. The question that arise…
Scattered limbs, scattered stories: The silence of Biafra
This essay examines the relationship between trauma, memory and the body in the Nigerian Civil War. It notes the absence of first-hand narratives of the experience of living through Biafra and, drawing on the work of Scarry, suggests that the silence in the archive indicates a trauma that has yet to be worked through and resolved. This unresolved trauma creates a perpetual unease, distrust and lack of belief in the Nigerian project amongst Igbos.…
A survey of fourteen African publishers
The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror
Embodiment and the Lived Experience of Diaspora
Diaspora and embodiment are terms that have separately gained currency in contemporary critical thought. However, the relations between them are inadequately theorized. Diaspora should not be taken to be an abstraction concerning the spacing of the subject across time. This movement away from and to a place can only be understood via a third mediating term: “the body” or “embodiment.” Theorization of black diasporic identity and expressive agency…
Feminist Book Publishing Today
In this piece, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, publisher of Cassava Republic Press based in Abuja (Nigeria) and London (UK), discusses with Simidele Dosekun her founding and continued visions for the press, how these translate into the daily management and operations of the business, and the opportunities and challenges publishing presents for feminist, Black and African political purposes, including transnationally. We also discuss what it means to run and b…
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)