Commonplace Podcast

Episode 84: M. NourbeSe Philip


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Books by M. NourbeSe Philip

Blank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017)

She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)

Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)

A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998)

Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 (Mercury Press, 1992)

Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury Press, 1991)

Other Texts and Writers Featured in the Episode

Kamau Brathwaite

Nathaniel (Nate) Mackey and his lecture, “Breath and Precarity

Phillis Wheatley

George Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin (University of Michigan Press, 1992)

George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (University of Michigan Press, 1991)

Claire Harris

Dionne Brand

Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like this Body (House of Anansi, 2013)

Austin Clarke (fiction writer)

George Elliot Clarke’s argument about Nova Scotia preachers’ sermons

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born

Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers

Other Relevant Links

Sawubona

Shona

Heinemann African Series

Tabebuia or Poui Trees of Trinidad and Tobago

Lionheart (movie)

Kikuyu people of Kenya

Malinke people (colonized by the French)

Afro-futurism

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