Nijah Cunningham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nijah Cunningham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nijah |
| FAMILY NAME | Cunningham |
| SIGNATURE | CUNNINGHAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College English Department U.S.A. New York NY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heliology
This essay attempts to think anticolonialism as theory. It does so by first embracing the role of metaphor in the contemporary discourse on decolonization. Then, turning to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, it models a way of re-reading the promise of anticolonial freedom attuned to the alternative conceptions of decolonization that persist in the wake of past struggles. Reading with Fanon and, subsequently, with Achille Mbembe in his rev…
With Each Other
Nicole R. Fleetwood. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 352 pp.; 95 color ills. $39.95Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarcerat
Autochthonomies
The four consecutive consonants in "autochthonous" are difficult to pronounce; they lodge in one's throat and produce a choking effect.The neologism in the title of this book by Myriam J.A. Chancy embraces that difficulty.With it, Chancy "tries her tongue" in a similar fashion to the way poet M. NourbeSe Philip wreaks havoc on the English language.Where Philip breaks apart words to unearth legacies of slavery and colonialism, Chancy augments the …
The Resistance of the Lost Body
As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her "forgotten" work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply chart Wynter's intellectual journey and rehearse the progression from a cultural concern to a seemingly more profound interrogation of the human, this essay suspends th…
A Queer Pier
Marking the close of the conference “The Idea of a Black Radical Tradition,” this roundtable served as a workshop for participants to explore, extend, and trouble the cultural and political discourse of black radicalism
The Resistance of the Lost Body
As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her "forgotten" work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply chart Wynter's intellectual journey and rehearse the progression from a cultural concern to a seemingly more profound interrogation of the human, this essay suspends th…
A Queer Pier
Marking the close of the conference “The Idea of a Black Radical Tradition,” this roundtable served as a workshop for participants to explore, extend, and trouble the cultural and political discourse of black radicalism
The Resistance of the Lost Body
As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her "forgotten" work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply chart Wynter's intellectual journey and rehearse the progression from a cultural concern to a seemingly more profound interrogation of the human, this essay suspends th…
With Each Other
Nicole R. Fleetwood. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 352 pp.; 95 color ills. $39.95Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarcerat
Autochthonomies
The four consecutive consonants in "autochthonous" are difficult to pronounce; they lodge in one's throat and produce a choking effect.The neologism in the title of this book by Myriam J.A. Chancy embraces that difficulty.With it, Chancy "tries her tongue" in a similar fashion to the way poet M. NourbeSe Philip wreaks havoc on the English language.Where Philip breaks apart words to unearth legacies of slavery and colonialism, Chancy augments the …
Heliology
This essay attempts to think anticolonialism as theory. It does so by first embracing the role of metaphor in the contemporary discourse on decolonization. Then, turning to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, it models a way of re-reading the promise of anticolonial freedom attuned to the alternative conceptions of decolonization that persist in the wake of past struggles. Reading with Fanon and, subsequently, with Achille Mbembe in his rev…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)