Palimpsest - Volume #1, Issue #1 (4/2012)

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson
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Essays

"For full freedom of… colored women in Africa, Asia, and these United States": Black Women Radical and the "Practice of a Black Women's International"
Erik McDuffie
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Fulani's Tools and Results: Development and Black Empowerment
Omar Ali
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Literature and the Meta-Psychoanalysis of race: After and With Fanon
Jean-Paul Rocchi
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Gender, Class, and the Performance of a Black (Anti) Enlightenment: Resistance of David Walker and Sojourner Truth
Sarah Cervenak
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The Narrative Absence of Interiority in Black Writing: Suffering Female Bodies in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
Sabine Broeck
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Poetic License

Stephanie Pruitt
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Adelia's Lesson
Bell's Work Song #6
Bell's Work Song #42
Incantation for Escape
The Teeth and Tongue
Thirteen Ways of Drafting a Response

Retrospectives

The Revolutionary Spirit of Toni Cade Bambara
Thabiti Lewis
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Euqshan Palcy: "Creative Dissent, Artistic Reckoning"
Tricia Danielle Keaton
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An Open Letter from Paris

The Guerlain Affair: Odorless French Racism
Rokhaya Diallo
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Book Nook: Reviews

Theifing Sugar from the Island Beneath the Sea: New Literature on/from the Caribbean
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
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Theifing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in the Caribbean Literature by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Reviews by Valerie Orlando
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Hands on the Freedom Plow. Edited by Faith S. Holseart, Martha Prescod, Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy Zellner
Review by Tarik A. Smith
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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation by Marcus Wood
Review by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
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The Art of Engagement Forum

Editors' Note: New technologies, Academic Freedom, and the Archive
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Erotica or Thanatica?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes, A Review Essay of Shayne Lee's "Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture"
Tamura A. Lomax
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A Critique of Protectionist Petulance
Shayne Lee
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Contributors

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