The Politics and Poetics of Translation (Part 2)

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08/17/23 • 48 min

This is the second part of a wonderfully rich, stimulating, and wide-ranging conversation between Grégory Pierrot and Anthony C. Alessandrini about the politics and poetics of translation, the life and legacy of Frantz Fanon, Black study, decolonial praxis, and much, much more! Some of the books and films discussed in the second part of this fantastic conversation include:

Joshua Myer’s On Black Study
Jafar Panahi's No Bears
Isaac Julien’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Ousmane Sembène’s Xala
Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel’s Arna’s Children

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Joshua Myer’s On Black Study
Jafar Panahi's No Bears
Isaac Julien’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Ousmane Sembène’s Xala
Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel’s Arna’s Children

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The Politics and Poetics of Translation (Part 1)

We are back with a special, two-part episode with Grégory Pierrot and Anthony C. Alessandrini about the politics and poetics of translation and much, much more!

Grégory Pierrot is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is the author of Decolonize Hipsters (OR Books, 2021), The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA, 2019) and co-editor of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA, 2022) and Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke, 2013). He is also a co-host of the webseries Decolonize That!

Anthony C. Alessandrini is a writer and public educator based in New York. He is the author of Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics; the editor of Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives; and the co-editor of “Resistance Everywhere”. He has also published a poetry chapbook, Children Imitating Cormorants. He teaches English at Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. He is also on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, a Co-Convener of the International Solidarity Action Research Network (ISARN), and an active member of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Some of the work discussed in the first part of this wonderfully rich, stimulating, and wide-ranging conversation:

Sophia Azeb’s piece on the Pan-African Cultural Festival of 1969 in The Funambulist
Paul Gilroy’s Against Race
Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance, edited by H. L. T. Quan.
Alberto Toscano's "The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism"
Grégory Pierrot’s Decolonize Hipsters
Roderick Ferguson’s We Demand: The University and Student Protests
Angela Davis’s Lectures on Liberation
Anthony C. Alessandrini, The Lived Experience of Social Construction and Decolonize Multiculturalism
Chelsea Stieber’s “John Brown Had a Sick Beard”

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Cinemas of the Black Diaspora

This week we are thrilled to be joined by Zélie Asava and Tambay A. Obenson to discuss cinemas of the Black diaspora. This conversation explores historically informed and forward-looking approaches to African film; the complexities of global Black communities; writing against the grain of histories and business models that revolve around Hollywood and American cinema; and much, much more!

Dr Zélie Asava is a specialist in questions of race, gender, screen studies, and visual culture. She is the author of The Black Irish Onscreen and Mixed Race Cinemas, and co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema on black and ethnic minority representation. She sits on the Boards of Screen Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, the journal French Screen Studies, Catalyst International Film Festival and the arts magazine Unapologetic, and is a member of the European Commission’s ‘Capital of Culture’ panel of experts.

With over 15 years of experience, Tambay A. Obenson has emerged as a trusted voice in African and diaspora cinema. He founded Shadow and Act in 2009, building what would become the leading online platform for Black film coverage with a global perspective, and spent four years at IndieWire as a Staff Writer. Currently, Tambay is building Akoroko, a new platform focused on mainstreaming coverage of and access to films telling African stories globally.

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