{"id":82,"date":"2015-05-04T21:26:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:27:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:27:19","slug":"the-imperfect-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"The Imperfect Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a conference paper on (Re)Mapping the Black Atlantic at DePaul University in 2013. It was on the anniversary of Paul Gilroy&#8217;s seminal work\u00c2\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674076068\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Atlantic:\u00c2\u00a0Modernity and Double-Consciousness<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>I spoke on Sam Selvon&#8217;s short novel\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Lonely Londoners\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>and the idea of a desiring language &#8211; one that Frantz Fanon named as the urgency of &#8216;reciprocal recognitions.&#8217; The conference paper was published just a month ago in\u00c2\u00a0<em>African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>a British journal.<\/p>\n<p>The full-text of the article is here!<br \/>\n<a title=\"The imperfect longing\" href=\"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?page_id=85\">&#8220;The imperfect longing: Sam Selvon&#8217;s <em>The Lonely Londoner<\/em>s and the dance of doubt.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a conference paper on (Re)Mapping the Black Atlantic at DePaul University in 2013. It was on the anniversary of Paul Gilroy&#8217;s seminal work\u00c2\u00a0The Black Atlantic:\u00c2\u00a0Modernity and Double-Consciousness.\u00c2\u00a0I spoke on Sam Selvon&#8217;s short novel\u00c2\u00a0The Lonely Londoners\u00c2\u00a0and the idea of a desiring language &#8211; one that Frantz Fanon named as the urgency of &#8216;reciprocal recognitions.&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,23,30,28,15,21,29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonialpostcolonial","category-diaspora","category-dwelling","category-european","category-imigration","category-literature","category-modernity","category-novel","category-windrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}