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MAKING BLACK HISTORY - DOMINIQUE HAENSELL KARTO...

This study proposes that - rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism
as an identificatory concept  politics  ethics or aesthetics - Afropolitanism may be best
approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment  that is  a certain historical
constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa  as
signifier  as real and imagined locus  embodies in the globalized  yet predominantly Western 
cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such  Making Black History looks at contemporary
fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of
Afropolitanism. Discursively  this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that
takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness  race  class 
and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a
rejection of racial solidarity  as some commentators have  they should be read as ambivalent
responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century 
particularly in the US  which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute
disappointment. Please read our interview with Dominique Haensell here:https: 
blog.degruyter.com
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