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A great loss for the Haitian people, and for Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world as a whole
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/w...
Frankétienne, Father of Haitian Letters, Is Dead at 88
A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
barbaragfoellner.bsky.social
CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies"

✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at

Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer
52nd AAAS Conference: Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities – Troubling American Studies
aaas25.univie.ac.at
February 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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markusschwarz.bsky.social
"Despair, too, because of how accessible escape is becoming in a world that requires more rigorous close looking, every day." A timely essay on Nikki Giovanni, Octavia Butler and the burning world, written by Hanif Abdurraqib.
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
Lessons for the End of the World
On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.
www.newyorker.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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CFP. An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asia”: Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
ccs.khu.ac.kr/board/notice...
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM