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SUMMARY:Paul Humphrey (Colgate University): Oceanic Archives and Afrodias
 poric 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\nAbstrac: This presentation analyses the intersections of 
 Afrodiasporic spirituality and the sea in Nuyorican creator Edgardo Mira
 nda-Rodriguez’s La Borinqueña and Haitian-American writer Greg Anderson-
 Elysée’s Marassa. Framed by the notion of the Atlantic and the Caribbean
  Sea as oceanic archives (DeLoughrey 2017)\, it explores how these comic
 s reject the colonial designation of the sea as aqua nullius and weave m
 any histories\, stories and mythologies into the fabric of the transatla
 ntic space in which they are situated. At the same time\, these comics c
 hallenge the extractivism and exploitation of coloniality to foreground 
 reciprocal relationships between the human\, nonhuman and more-than-huma
 n. Drawing on ancestral and ritual knowledge and the many “sea ontologie
 s” of the waters (DeLoughrey 2017)\, the analysis places these narrative
 s into conversation with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander\, Christina Sha
 rpe and Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley\, among others\, to discern the ways t
 hat Santería\, Vodou and Taíno spiritualities present a decolonial frame
 work for engagement with the environment in our contemporary moment.
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