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F20 Black Atlantic: Resources, Pedagogy, and Scholarship on the 18th Century Black AtlanticMain MenuAuthor IndexFAQWeek 01: August 28: PedagogiesWeek 02: Friday, September 4: Thinking about Projects and Digital MethodsWeek 03: Friday, September 11: Black Atlantic Classics Week 04: Reccomended: Thursday September 17: 4pm: Indigenous Studies and British LiteraturesThe Center for Literary + Comparative Studies @UMDWeek 04: Required: Friday, September 18: Reading: Indigenous Studies in the Eighteenth CenturyWeek 04: Required: Friday, September 18: Book LaunchRemaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American CitizenshipWeek 05: Friday, September 25: Digital Humanities, Caribbean Stuides, and FashionGuest: Siobhan MeiWeek 06: Friday, October 2: OBIWeek 07: October 9: Black LondonSancho's Social NetworksWeek 08: Friday, October 16:Muslim Slave Narratives, Hans Sloane, the British Museum, Colonialism as CurationWeek 09: Friday, October 23: Reflection and Tools DayWeek 10: Friday, October 30: Myths of a White Atlantic (and Project Proposal)Week 11: Friday, November 6: Black New EnglandWeek 12: Friday, November 13: Woman of Colour and Mary PrinceWeek 13: Friday, November 20: Peer Review Workshop and Draft with Action PlanKierra M. Porter6b7d2e75a0006cdf2df0ac2471be73ef9c88c9e3Brandice Walker579eedcc76564f61b1ba7f36082d05bdf4fc3435Alexis Harper52f175308474d58b269191120b6cda0582dcde71Catherine C. Saunders80964fcb3df3a95f164eca6637e796a22deb5f63Joseph Heidenescher83b7b4309ef73ce872fc35c61eb8ed716cce705fJoshua Lawson8aecdcf9d2db74d75fb55413d44f3c2dfc3828bdKymberli M Corprue7f6419242e66e656367985fbc1cfa10a933ce71dJimisha Relerford1903b0530d962a83c3a72bad80c867df4f5c027fEmily MN Kugler98290aa17be4166538e04751b7eb57a9fe5c26a2Reed Caswell Aikendbd321f67398d85b0079cc751762466dfe764f88Brenton Brock619582e4449ba6f0c631f2ebb7d7313c0890fa00
Orrie Florius Presentaion
12020-11-20T09:37:24-08:00Alexis Harper52f175308474d58b269191120b6cda0582dcde71377913Graduate Colloquiumplain2020-11-28T11:07:33-08:00Alexis Harper52f175308474d58b269191120b6cda0582dcde71This past week, I attended the GESA graduate colloquium over Zoom. Orrie Florius, a graduate student in the English department. Her presentation focus on marronage in several recent Caribbean texts, including The Book of Night Women by Marlon James. Marronage, as Orrie defined it through her talk, focuses on Black Caribbeans' movement to mountain or otherwise inaccessible areas where they set up societies largely separate from the White planters.
The bulk of the discussion was focused around finding alternative methods of marronage in the text. We had a robust discussion over how the literacy in the text might function as a form of marronage. I was particularly interested in how literacy can be looked at as a way of building - escaping into the mountains is how people were able to form their own identity separate from the plantation. This also allowed them a certain kind of power. I think literacy could operate similarly. Literacy does give the enslaved people intrinsic power from simply being able to read. However, I'm also interested in how it can function oppositionally. I am wondering if the ability to not only read, but use that literacy to define their opposition also folds into marronage, Marronage was a way for the Caribbean people to form their identity, and I belive literacy could function the same.