Books and Edited Collections by Barbara Gföllner
Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies, 2021
Full reference:
Englert, Birgit; Gföllner, Barbara; Thomsen, Sigrid. (Eds.). 2021. Cultural Mo... more Full reference:
Englert, Birgit; Gföllner, Barbara; Thomsen, Sigrid. (Eds.). 2021. Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean. London and New York: Routledge.
fully open access now: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003152248/cultural-mobilities-africa-caribbean-birgit-englert-barbara-gf%C3%B6llner-sigrid-thomsen?fbclid=IwAR2gz_dVTWQmI2CCI-GjgBjvLAO7jbVLoXFSaZq-TqEt6USZSSxl8EsoWi4
with a foreword by Mimi Sheller,
an introduction by the editors,
and contributions by Àníké Bello, Dominik Frühwirth, Shelene Gomes, Immanuel R. Harisch, Ana Nenadović, Doris Posch, Kevin Potter, Paola Ravasio, and Anna-Leena Toivanen
This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.
Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories, the connections between the African continent and the Caribbean are manifold, stretching back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The authors in this book look to the past as well as to the present, focusing on the manifold mobile connections between the regions’ subjects, objects, ideas, texts, images, sounds, and beliefs. In doing so, the book demonstrates that mobility extends beyond just the movement of people, and that we can also see mobility in objects and ideas, travelling either in a material sense or in imaginary terms, in physical as well as in virtual spaces.
Bringing the transdisciplinary fields of African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Mobility Studies into dialogue, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Mobilities-Between-Africa-and-the-Caribbean/Englert-Gfollner-Thomsen/p/book/9780367708313
Papers by Barbara Gföllner
Dialogues in Human Geography, 2024
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2023
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2023
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2023
Jonathan Pugh, Professor of Island Studies at the Department of Geography at Newcastle University... more Jonathan Pugh, Professor of Island Studies at the Department of Geography at Newcastle University, is a leading scholar in island studies. He is renowned for his critical reflections on the prominent role which islands and thinking with “islandness” is playing in the generation of different contemporary pathways of critical thought. His earlier work contributed to scholarship challenging perceptions of islands as insular, and thereby joins key concerns in archipelagic studies, by delineating a “relational turn” in island studies. Pugh’s more recent work, together with David Chandler, is interested in the role of the island in the Anthropocene, examined in his “Anthropocene Islands” project and their co-authored book Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (2021). His latest research conceptualizes what Pugh and Chandler call “the abyssal,” a radical critique of modernity, by drawing on Caribbean and Black scholarship in their book The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (2023). This interview teeters between these debates and is a result of written reflections and verbal correspondence between Jonathan Pugh and Barbara Gfoellner over several months throughout 2021 and early 2022. The final interview is an edited version of their discussion, which started off with reflections on archipelagic studies and its relevance for the Anthropocene and organically moved to Pugh’s more recent theoretical reflections on “the abyssal.”
Island Studies Journal, 2022
This article looks at Richard Georges’ poetry collection Epiphaneia, which is set on the British ... more This article looks at Richard Georges’ poetry collection Epiphaneia, which is set on the British Virgin Islands in the aftermath of hurricane Irma. While Georges’ poems are placed amidst destruction, they go beyond narratives of devastation; instead, they articulate a poetics of livingness on the hurricane-struck island. This paper first draws out critical debates on the coloniality of climate that show the longue durée and complexity of a history of catastrophe in the Caribbean context. It addresses how
Epiphaneia challenges one-sided discourses of island dependency and victimization by offering ways to perceive islands in the Anthropocene not as passive victims of catastrophes but as sites of living within what Glissant calls a chaos-world. This article then advances an ecopoetics of the archipelago in the wake of the hurricane. The various tensions held by the island after the storm will be traced through the word ‘still’: the ongoing violence of coloniality, still present; yet continuously resisted due to the island’s and islanders’ resilience and survival, still alive. This paper explores the poetics emerging from the island in the Anthropocene: What poetics are needed to sustain life after, and within, catastrophe? What does it mean to exist and move, still, on the island in the wake of the hurricane?
In times where the African American community is repeatedly reminded of the precarity of black li... more In times where the African American community is repeatedly reminded of the precarity of black lives, due to widespread and targeted police violence, voices speaking out against racial injustices have grown in urgency and vehemence. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, African American young adult novelists have increasingly felt compelled to address the topic of police brutality and offer a counternarrative to the stories about black victims disseminated in the media. This thesis aims to illustrate how prevalent debates of Black Lives Matter are reflected in contemporary young adult fiction. To this end, the first part traces a brief history of black America as well as elucidating substantial issues that have led to the precarious position of African Americans today and to the emergence of the current Black Lives Matter movement. In a second part, the term young adult literature is discussed, drawing special attention to African American young adult literature. Referring to...
JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Widespread police violence, often targeted at black people, has increasingly entered public debat... more Widespread police violence, often targeted at black people, has increasingly entered public debates in recent years. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, various African American young adult novelists have addressed the topic of police brutality and offer counternarratives to the stories about black victims disseminated in the media. This article illustrates how prevalent debates of Black Lives Matter are reflected in contemporary young adult fiction. To this end, the first part elucidates substantial issues that have led to the precarious position of African Americans today and to the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing on theoretical concepts such as Judith Butler’s notion of "precarious lives" and Frantz Fanon’s description of the black experience in a white-dominated world, I will analyze Angie Thomas's novel The Hate U Give in view of ongoing debates about racial inequality. As I will show, the novel features striking similarities to real...
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Books and Edited Collections by Barbara Gföllner
Englert, Birgit; Gföllner, Barbara; Thomsen, Sigrid. (Eds.). 2021. Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean. London and New York: Routledge.
fully open access now: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003152248/cultural-mobilities-africa-caribbean-birgit-englert-barbara-gf%C3%B6llner-sigrid-thomsen?fbclid=IwAR2gz_dVTWQmI2CCI-GjgBjvLAO7jbVLoXFSaZq-TqEt6USZSSxl8EsoWi4
with a foreword by Mimi Sheller,
an introduction by the editors,
and contributions by Àníké Bello, Dominik Frühwirth, Shelene Gomes, Immanuel R. Harisch, Ana Nenadović, Doris Posch, Kevin Potter, Paola Ravasio, and Anna-Leena Toivanen
This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.
Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories, the connections between the African continent and the Caribbean are manifold, stretching back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The authors in this book look to the past as well as to the present, focusing on the manifold mobile connections between the regions’ subjects, objects, ideas, texts, images, sounds, and beliefs. In doing so, the book demonstrates that mobility extends beyond just the movement of people, and that we can also see mobility in objects and ideas, travelling either in a material sense or in imaginary terms, in physical as well as in virtual spaces.
Bringing the transdisciplinary fields of African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Mobility Studies into dialogue, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Mobilities-Between-Africa-and-the-Caribbean/Englert-Gfollner-Thomsen/p/book/9780367708313
Papers by Barbara Gföllner
Epiphaneia challenges one-sided discourses of island dependency and victimization by offering ways to perceive islands in the Anthropocene not as passive victims of catastrophes but as sites of living within what Glissant calls a chaos-world. This article then advances an ecopoetics of the archipelago in the wake of the hurricane. The various tensions held by the island after the storm will be traced through the word ‘still’: the ongoing violence of coloniality, still present; yet continuously resisted due to the island’s and islanders’ resilience and survival, still alive. This paper explores the poetics emerging from the island in the Anthropocene: What poetics are needed to sustain life after, and within, catastrophe? What does it mean to exist and move, still, on the island in the wake of the hurricane?
Englert, Birgit; Gföllner, Barbara; Thomsen, Sigrid. (Eds.). 2021. Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean. London and New York: Routledge.
fully open access now: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003152248/cultural-mobilities-africa-caribbean-birgit-englert-barbara-gf%C3%B6llner-sigrid-thomsen?fbclid=IwAR2gz_dVTWQmI2CCI-GjgBjvLAO7jbVLoXFSaZq-TqEt6USZSSxl8EsoWi4
with a foreword by Mimi Sheller,
an introduction by the editors,
and contributions by Àníké Bello, Dominik Frühwirth, Shelene Gomes, Immanuel R. Harisch, Ana Nenadović, Doris Posch, Kevin Potter, Paola Ravasio, and Anna-Leena Toivanen
This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.
Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories, the connections between the African continent and the Caribbean are manifold, stretching back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The authors in this book look to the past as well as to the present, focusing on the manifold mobile connections between the regions’ subjects, objects, ideas, texts, images, sounds, and beliefs. In doing so, the book demonstrates that mobility extends beyond just the movement of people, and that we can also see mobility in objects and ideas, travelling either in a material sense or in imaginary terms, in physical as well as in virtual spaces.
Bringing the transdisciplinary fields of African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Mobility Studies into dialogue, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Mobilities-Between-Africa-and-the-Caribbean/Englert-Gfollner-Thomsen/p/book/9780367708313
Epiphaneia challenges one-sided discourses of island dependency and victimization by offering ways to perceive islands in the Anthropocene not as passive victims of catastrophes but as sites of living within what Glissant calls a chaos-world. This article then advances an ecopoetics of the archipelago in the wake of the hurricane. The various tensions held by the island after the storm will be traced through the word ‘still’: the ongoing violence of coloniality, still present; yet continuously resisted due to the island’s and islanders’ resilience and survival, still alive. This paper explores the poetics emerging from the island in the Anthropocene: What poetics are needed to sustain life after, and within, catastrophe? What does it mean to exist and move, still, on the island in the wake of the hurricane?