Reframing the Black Atlantic: African, Diasporic, Queer and Feminist Perspectives

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative.

Aretha Phiri researches the intersectional interactions of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and sexualities in comparative, transnational and transatlantic considerations of identity and subjectivity, with a focus on African American, American and contemporary diasporic African literature. Currently on the editorial boards of Safundi and English in Africa, she has been a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS), the National Humanities Center (NHC) and the Library of Congress (LoC).