FWS: Africana's Oceans

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What happens when we think and write from the Africana world’s waters? Seas and oceans have, for millennia, been sites and means of crossings, encounters, enslavement, hybridities, globalizations, and different modes of Being, belonging, and becoming. What possibilities unfold when we think about labor, poetry, modes of Relation, Blackness, and Africanness not from the histories, governments, economies, and literatures of territories but from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea (understanding all of Africana’s waters to be connected)? We will explore literature from thinkers including Édouard Glissant, Derek Walcott, Paul Gilroy, Haji Gora Haji, and Yvonne Owuor. In this writing seminar, students will read, engage with, and write about the Africana world(s) from its deepest seas and the relationships, possibilities, and futures they produce.