Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Biographic Data
| ID | 938528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ama Bemma |
| FAMILY NAME | Adwetewa-Badu |
| SIGNATURE | ADWETEWA-BADU A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Videopoetry, digital lyrics, and Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s “Mother Tongues”
Life-Work
The politics and poetics of institutional support and conference circuits for poets was well established during the Cold War and post-decolonization. This essay considers rethinking the role of institutional support for poets during the 1964 Rencontre Internationale de Poètes held in West Berlin, Germany. By offering a reading of Afro-diasporic exchange as found in photographs, lectures, and discussion periods in which Derek Walcott and John Pepp…
New Media Poetics during Long-Crises
This paper focuses on the new media poetics of Mendi + Keith Obadike, particularly “Blackness for Sale” (2001) and “Keeping Up Appearances” (2001). Through their use of technology to examine pressing social and political concerns, they engage with and attempt to correct what I call “long-crises,” which is the long-lasting interrelation of capitalism and the racial orders through which Black populations endure racial capitalism over various period…
Forms of a World
Walt Hunter's study of contemporary poetry and globalization, Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization, opens with two provocative questions, “What happens when we think of poetry as a global literary genre and when we think of the global in poetic terms?” (1). These questions situate Hunter's interdisciplinary examination of contemporary poetry by raising to the fore his most immediate contribution, which is to think…
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Forms of a World
Walt Hunter's study of contemporary poetry and globalization, Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization, opens with two provocative questions, “What happens when we think of poetry as a global literary genre and when we think of the global in poetic terms?” (1). These questions situate Hunter's interdisciplinary examination of contemporary poetry by raising to the fore his most immediate contribution, which is to think…
New Media Poetics during Long-Crises
This paper focuses on the new media poetics of Mendi + Keith Obadike, particularly “Blackness for Sale” (2001) and “Keeping Up Appearances” (2001). Through their use of technology to examine pressing social and political concerns, they engage with and attempt to correct what I call “long-crises,” which is the long-lasting interrelation of capitalism and the racial orders through which Black populations endure racial capitalism over various period…
Life-Work
The politics and poetics of institutional support and conference circuits for poets was well established during the Cold War and post-decolonization. This essay considers rethinking the role of institutional support for poets during the 1964 Rencontre Internationale de Poètes held in West Berlin, Germany. By offering a reading of Afro-diasporic exchange as found in photographs, lectures, and discussion periods in which Derek Walcott and John Pepp…
Videopoetry, digital lyrics, and Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s “Mother Tongues”
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