Andrea Medovarski
Biographic Data
| ID | 9683373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Medovarski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Medovarski |
| SIGNATURE | MEDOVARSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ruttier for an Athlete
This reflection considers the ways Dionne Brand’s conceptualizations of the Black body in Map to the Door of No Return reveal its liberatory potentialities. By grouping athleticism with other forms of artistry, Brand’s consideration of the sporting body suggests its possibilities in creative and intellectual projects. I use the conceptual tools provided in Map to consider American gymnast Simone Biles’ actions in the 2020 Olympics as one of these…
What Reading Austin Clarke Can Teach Us about Black Lives Matter
This article considers the ways in which some of Austin Clarke’s writings might be understood as an expressive and intellectual blueprint for the activism of Black Lives Matter (BLM). Clarke’s radical politics can be seen in the ways he reconceptualizes Canadian citizenship and Black activism, and in the ways his fiction and nonfiction writing interrogates respectability politics in order to take seriously the full range of emotions – including r…
Settling Down and Settling Up
This book is a comparative examination of the second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing that dialogues with black diaspora and postcolonial theory, feminist and social geography, and cultural studies.
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Settling Down and Settling Up
This book is a comparative examination of the second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing that dialogues with black diaspora and postcolonial theory, feminist and social geography, and cultural studies.
What Reading Austin Clarke Can Teach Us about Black Lives Matter
This article considers the ways in which some of Austin Clarke’s writings might be understood as an expressive and intellectual blueprint for the activism of Black Lives Matter (BLM). Clarke’s radical politics can be seen in the ways he reconceptualizes Canadian citizenship and Black activism, and in the ways his fiction and nonfiction writing interrogates respectability politics in order to take seriously the full range of emotions – including r…
Ruttier for an Athlete
This reflection considers the ways Dionne Brand’s conceptualizations of the Black body in Map to the Door of No Return reveal its liberatory potentialities. By grouping athleticism with other forms of artistry, Brand’s consideration of the sporting body suggests its possibilities in creative and intellectual projects. I use the conceptual tools provided in Map to consider American gymnast Simone Biles’ actions in the 2020 Olympics as one of these…
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