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José I. Fusté – “Historicizing Entangled Afro-Latinidades: Looking Beyond the Diasporic and/or National Subject”

This presentation invites us to imagine afrodescended Latin@s—who live, think, and feel colonial modernity between different nations, regions, and subaltern positionalities—as subjects with inherently fragmented and “entangled” ontologies. Drawing from the writings of the Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant about the protean condition of the Caribbean (post)colonial subject, we will analyze various Cuban and Puerto Rican […]