Christopher Ian Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Ian Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER C I |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University, Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Hegel in the Rainforest
If early Caribbean philosophy is characterized by its pan-African flourishes, what is less well known is its flirtations with existentialism. Although C.L.R. James’s 1965 Heideggerian reading of Wilson Harris’s novel Palace of the Peacock and his 1966 lecture “Existentialism and Marxism” are cited in books on both James and Harris, oddly, there has been no substantial reading of Heidegger’s own philosophy along with Palace of the Peacock, or, of …
Leave to quit boundaries
Caribbean writer A.R.F. Webber's 1917 Those That Be in Bondage is the first novel of the South Asian Caribbean. In it, he locates migration and sexuality within larger colonial systems spanning economics, race, class, and gender norms. Shani Mootoo's 2008 novel, Valmiki's Daughter, shows how queer lives are shaped in the Caribbean, and how they are often on the move, intersecting with the objects and conditions of migration. From big oil in Trini…
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…
Femme Migritude
This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which …
Mobility in the City
In his novels Cockroach and Carnival, Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrant…
What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement
Research Article| May 01 2020 What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement Shailja Patel Shailja Patel Shailja Patel is author of Migritude (2010). She received the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award for “On Postcolonial Theory” and was 2019 keynote speaker for the “Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogue” at Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2019–20 research associate at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachu…
Activist by Default
This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione, the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer”…
Migritude and Kala Pani Routes in Shumona Sinha’s Assommons les pauvres (Let Us Strike Down the Poor)
The term migritude was first coined by French theorist Jacques Chevrier to characterize “extracontinental” francophone sub-Saharan literatures that have their roots in negritude and immigration. Kenyan cultural artist Shailja Patel later expanded the term to include South Asian “migrants with attitude.” This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani, or nineteenth-century India…
Migritude’s Progress
Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arriv…
Postface
Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…
This is How We Refugee
This is How We Refugee":Neoliberalism from Haiti to Palestine and the Economics of Refugee Form Christopher Ian Foster (bio) "The bourgeoisie . . . has resolved personal worth into exchange value . . . has set up that single, unconscionable freedom ––Free Trade . . . and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848) "The March on Washington starts from Occupied Jerusalem…
Migrants With Attitude”
In her performance piece and book Migritude, Shailja Patel traces South-Asian diasporas in East Africa and her own migrations from Africa to England and the United States. This tracing stages the fraught and historical intimacies of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. East African Asian writers like M.G. Vassanji, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and others are similarly global and diasporic in scope. Yet, Patel's project Migritude refashions Négritude-…
Home to Hargeisa
French literary theorist Jacques Chevrier argues that immigration is at the heart of contemporary African literature. He calls this new corpus of African literature migritude. Migritude literature provides both a new and sophisticated way of understanding immigration in the era of global capitalism and a critical engagement with it; it lends new perspective to the study of African literature itself by bringing to the fore conditions of diaspora, …
The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove
This essay considers Maryse Condé's Guadeloupean mystery novel Crossing the Mangrove as emblematic of a “politics of crossing.” The novel's queer critical praxis presents a rigorous challenge to normative (often oppressive) communities embodied by the individual, the family, the nation, and other collective ensembles to critique the failure of patriarchy, racist nationalism, classism, and heterosexism in the novel's postcolonial context. Although…
Leave to quit boundaries
Caribbean writer A.R.F. Webber's 1917 Those That Be in Bondage is the first novel of the South Asian Caribbean. In it, he locates migration and sexuality within larger colonial systems spanning economics, race, class, and gender norms. Shani Mootoo's 2008 novel, Valmiki's Daughter, shows how queer lives are shaped in the Caribbean, and how they are often on the move, intersecting with the objects and conditions of migration. From big oil in Trini…
This is How We Refugee
This is How We Refugee":Neoliberalism from Haiti to Palestine and the Economics of Refugee Form Christopher Ian Foster (bio) "The bourgeoisie . . . has resolved personal worth into exchange value . . . has set up that single, unconscionable freedom ––Free Trade . . . and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848) "The March on Washington starts from Occupied Jerusalem…
The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove
This essay considers Maryse Condé's Guadeloupean mystery novel Crossing the Mangrove as emblematic of a “politics of crossing.” The novel's queer critical praxis presents a rigorous challenge to normative (often oppressive) communities embodied by the individual, the family, the nation, and other collective ensembles to critique the failure of patriarchy, racist nationalism, classism, and heterosexism in the novel's postcolonial context. Although…
The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove
This essay considers Maryse Condé's Guadeloupean mystery novel Crossing the Mangrove as emblematic of a “politics of crossing.” The novel's queer critical praxis presents a rigorous challenge to normative (often oppressive) communities embodied by the individual, the family, the nation, and other collective ensembles to critique the failure of patriarchy, racist nationalism, classism, and heterosexism in the novel's postcolonial context. Although…
Migrants With Attitude”
In her performance piece and book Migritude, Shailja Patel traces South-Asian diasporas in East Africa and her own migrations from Africa to England and the United States. This tracing stages the fraught and historical intimacies of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. East African Asian writers like M.G. Vassanji, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and others are similarly global and diasporic in scope. Yet, Patel's project Migritude refashions Négritude-…
Home to Hargeisa
French literary theorist Jacques Chevrier argues that immigration is at the heart of contemporary African literature. He calls this new corpus of African literature migritude. Migritude literature provides both a new and sophisticated way of understanding immigration in the era of global capitalism and a critical engagement with it; it lends new perspective to the study of African literature itself by bringing to the fore conditions of diaspora, …
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…
Femme Migritude
This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which …
Mobility in the City
In his novels Cockroach and Carnival, Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrant…
What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement
Research Article| May 01 2020 What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement Shailja Patel Shailja Patel Shailja Patel is author of Migritude (2010). She received the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award for “On Postcolonial Theory” and was 2019 keynote speaker for the “Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogue” at Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2019–20 research associate at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachu…
Activist by Default
This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione, the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer”…
Migritude and Kala Pani Routes in Shumona Sinha’s Assommons les pauvres (Let Us Strike Down the Poor)
The term migritude was first coined by French theorist Jacques Chevrier to characterize “extracontinental” francophone sub-Saharan literatures that have their roots in negritude and immigration. Kenyan cultural artist Shailja Patel later expanded the term to include South Asian “migrants with attitude.” This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani, or nineteenth-century India…
Migritude’s Progress
Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arriv…
Postface
Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…
This is How We Refugee
This is How We Refugee":Neoliberalism from Haiti to Palestine and the Economics of Refugee Form Christopher Ian Foster (bio) "The bourgeoisie . . . has resolved personal worth into exchange value . . . has set up that single, unconscionable freedom ––Free Trade . . . and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848) "The March on Washington starts from Occupied Jerusalem…
No Hegel in the Rainforest
If early Caribbean philosophy is characterized by its pan-African flourishes, what is less well known is its flirtations with existentialism. Although C.L.R. James’s 1965 Heideggerian reading of Wilson Harris’s novel Palace of the Peacock and his 1966 lecture “Existentialism and Marxism” are cited in books on both James and Harris, oddly, there has been no substantial reading of Heidegger’s own philosophy along with Palace of the Peacock, or, of …
Leave to quit boundaries
Caribbean writer A.R.F. Webber's 1917 Those That Be in Bondage is the first novel of the South Asian Caribbean. In it, he locates migration and sexuality within larger colonial systems spanning economics, race, class, and gender norms. Shani Mootoo's 2008 novel, Valmiki's Daughter, shows how queer lives are shaped in the Caribbean, and how they are often on the move, intersecting with the objects and conditions of migration. From big oil in Trini…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 works) · Diaspora (6 works)