“What ‘Minor' Histories Allow Us to See”: Donette Francis on Writing African Diaspora
In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing03/28/23 • 41 min
In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program) speaks with Donette Francis, an Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. A founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, her research and writing investigate place, aesthetics, and cultural politics in the African Diaspora. They discuss the politics of making visible what Donette calls “minor histories.” Across her work on the novel as well as in the realm of contemporary art, Donette invites us to ask: what does attending to these histories allow us to see?
03/28/23 • 41 min
In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing - “What ‘Minor' Histories Allow Us to See”: Donette Francis on Writing African Diaspora
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Caro Fowler
Welcome to In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing. I am Caro Fowler, your host and Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In this series of conversations, I talk with art historians and artists about what it means to write history and make art, and the ways in which making informs how we create not only our world, but also ourselves.
Caitlin Woolsey
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