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SUMMARY:Paul Humphrey (Colgate University): "Oceanic Archives and Afrodia
 sporic Spirituality in Comics from the Caribbean Diaspora"
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies r
 esearch seminar series.\n\nThis event will be online: https://zoom.us/j/
 95860231166\n\nAbstract: This presentation analyses the intersections of
  Afrodiasporic spirituality and the sea in Nuyorican creator Edgardo Mir
 anda-Rodriguez’s La Borinqueña and Haitian-American writer Greg Anderson
 -Elysée’s Marassa. Framed by the notion of the Atlantic and the Caribbea
 n Sea as oceanic archives (DeLoughrey 2017)\, it explores how these comi
 cs reject the colonial designation of the sea as aqua nullius and weave 
 many histories\, stories and mythologies into the fabric of the transatl
 antic space in which they are situated. At the same time\, these comics 
 challenge the extractivism and exploitation of coloniality to foreground
  reciprocal relationships between the human\, nonhuman and more-than-hum
 an. Drawing on ancestral and ritual knowledge and the many “sea ontologi
 es” of the waters (DeLoughrey 2017)\, the analysis places these narrativ
 es into conversation with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander\, Christina Sh
 arpe and Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley\, among others\, to discern the ways 
 that Santería\, Vodou and Taíno spiritualities present a decolonial fram
 ework for engagement with the environment in our contemporary moment.
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