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Dedicated to highlighting currents of North American Studies in Germany.Also on spotify and itunes, or follow Talking American Studies on twitter/facebook/instagram!About the host/creator: I'm Verena Adamik, and I teach and research American Studies at the University of Potsdam. For my PhD project, I investigated the link between the United States' national narrative and utopianism by looking at fictional renditions of utopian communities (i.e. 'communes') in the nineteenth century. I am currently turning some of my findings into a book. Further research interests include horror fiction and African American writing, specifically sf, horror, and literary responses to White supremacist discourse. Because I miss going to seminars and lectures, I decided to just get scholars to spill their intellectual beans in this podcast.

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African American Worldmaking in the Long Nineteenth Century

November 01, 2019 • Verena Adamik, Yasmin Künze, and guests • Season 1 • Episode 4

We’re talking American Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Postcolonial studies, subjectivity and agency, HBCUs, Monticello, Sally Hemings, Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn, --- and that’s just the beginning. Featuring Chet'la Sebree (Bucknell University), Erik Redling (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Michael Drexler (Bucknell University), Nele Sawallisch (Obama Institute, University of Mainz), Nicole Waller (University of Potsdam) and Niya Bates (International Center for Jefferson Studies). Hosted by Yasmin Künze & Verena Adamik (University of Potsdam).

Homepage Symposium

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/workshops-conferences/symposium-african-american-worldmaking-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/

Works Cited

Drexler, Michael. The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr. 2014.

Drexler, Michael. The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States. 2016.

Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. 2013.

Redling, Erik. Translating Jazz into Poetry: From Mimesis to Metaphor. 2017.

Redling, Erik. “Speaking of Dialect”: Translating Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales Into Postmodern Systems of Signification. 2006.

Risser, James. Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s. 1999.

Sawallisch, Nele. Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid Nineteenth Century. Transcript, 2019.

Sebree, Chet’la. Mistress. New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2019.

Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. 2015.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, et al. Imperative Zur Neuerfindung Des Planeten = Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet. 2013.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England. London: John Snow, 1855. Documenting the American South. 2001. Web. 25 Aug. 2012.

Warren, Richard. Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Rev. Richard Warren, (A Fugitive Slave). Written By Himself. Hamilton: Christian Advocate, 1856. Internet Archive. Edmonton. Web. 4 March 2013.

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