Jamele Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4411522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamele Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamele |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4632-1806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Angela’s Augenzeuge
Transverse Disciplines
Black Elegy on Stage
The stage has become a site of mourning within Black diasporic theater. Olumide Popoola's Also by Mail (2013) and Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present (2014) are two plays that stage mourning to remember ancestors who have transitioned. Popoola's play centers on one family and a father who has passed away, while Drury's play focuses on the collective genocide of the Herero in the German colony Southwest Africa. Popoola and Drury use th…
Silence as an Interlocutor in the Diaspora
This article analyzes silences in the novella this is not about sadness. Using theories of community building by Fatima El-Tayeb, opacity from Édouard Glissant, and theories by Popoola herself, my work argues for the generative way silences function. Silence interweaves the text in community of women and PoCs who create healing and community in shared trauma. Further, the novella articulates diasporic space through language. The use of language i…
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Silence as an Interlocutor in the Diaspora
This article analyzes silences in the novella this is not about sadness. Using theories of community building by Fatima El-Tayeb, opacity from Édouard Glissant, and theories by Popoola herself, my work argues for the generative way silences function. Silence interweaves the text in community of women and PoCs who create healing and community in shared trauma. Further, the novella articulates diasporic space through language. The use of language i…
Transverse Disciplines
Black Elegy on Stage
The stage has become a site of mourning within Black diasporic theater. Olumide Popoola's Also by Mail (2013) and Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present (2014) are two plays that stage mourning to remember ancestors who have transitioned. Popoola's play centers on one family and a father who has passed away, while Drury's play focuses on the collective genocide of the Herero in the German colony Southwest Africa. Popoola and Drury use th…
Angela’s Augenzeuge
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)