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11Creolization as Decolonial TheoryResearch in Phenomenology 54 (1): 74-91. 2024.What does Édouard Glissant have to contribute to theorizing decolonization and a philosophy of difference? And how is this contribution tied to rethinking place (from Caribbean to Caribbeanness) and world (comprised of creolized culture and identity)? This essay takes up Glissant’s work in the context of questions of history and memory, with particular focus on how historical experience grounds philosophical work on place and world through articulations of identity, language, cultural production…Read more
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Elsewhere of HomeIn John E. Drabinski & Eric Sean Nelson (eds.), Between Levinas and Heidegger, State University of New York Press. pp. 245-260. 2014.
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6IntroductionIn John E. Drabinski & Eric Sean Nelson (eds.), Between Levinas and Heidegger, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-12. 2014.
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6Decolonizing the WestIn Corey McCall & Phillip McReynolds (eds.), Decolonizing American Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 63-79. 2020.
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7Glissant and the middle passage: philosophy, beginning, abyssUniversity of Minnesota Press. 2019.In dialogue with key theorists of catastrophe and trauma--including Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Derek Walcott, as well as key figures in Holocaust studies--Glissant and the Middle Passage hones a sharp sense of the specifically Caribbean varieties of loss, developing them into a transformative philosophical idea. Using the Plantation as a critical concept, John E. Drabinski creolizes notions of rhizome and nomad, examining what kinds of aestheti…Read more
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11Ohio University Archives & Special Collection MS Collection #118 - 1940-1988Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 3 (3): 221-226. 1991.
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20Supplement to the Paul Ricoeur CollectionBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 3 (3): 227-234. 1991.
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814 Poetics of the MangroveIn Arun Saldanha & Jason Michael Adams (eds.), Deleuze and Race, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 288-299. 2012.
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9Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, OtherEdinburgh University Press. 2011.What can we learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference? With that question in view, Drabinski undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos in order to rethink ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics. Through these philosophical readings, he gives a new perspective on the work of these important postcolonial theorists and helps make Levinas relevant to other disciplines concerned with postco…Read more
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12Martinique Between Fanon and NaipaulJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 30 (2): 128-145. 2023.An argument for the proximity, if not absolute sameness, of Naipaul and Fanon on the status of the West Indies in the age of colonialism and independence struggle.
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4Atlantic Theory and TheoriesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 30 (2). 2023.Notes on Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy XXX, no. 2 (2022)
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Deconstruction as diaspora : on Derrida, Africa, and identity's deferralIn Grant Farred (ed.), Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought, Lexington Books. 2019.
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4Affect and Revolution: On Baldwin and FanonPhaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 7 (2). 2012.This essay explores a philosophical encounter between Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin framed by the problem of the affect of shame. In particular, this essay asks how the affect of shame functions simultaneously as the accomplishment of regimes of anti-black racism and the site of transformative, revolutionary consciousness. Shame threatens the formation of subjectivity, as well as, and as an extension of, senses of home and belonging. How are we to imagine another subjectivity, another relation …Read more
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10The Hither-Side of the Living-Present in Levinas and HusserlPhilosophy Today 40 (1): 142-150. 1996.
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29Senghor's Anxiety of InfluenceJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 24 (1): 68-80. 2016.An examination of the question of influence in Senghor's work, with particular attention to the concept of assimilation - which I argue allows Senghor to responsibly adopt notions from French vitalist and life-philosophy traditions, despite their close ties to colonial and imperial histories.
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Difference and Sense: The Problem of Relation in the Work of Emmanuel LevinasDissertation, The University of Memphis. 1996.This work presents a reading of the development of the heretofore neglected problem of intentionality in the texts of Emmanuel Levinas. It is my contention that through such a reading one uncovers the method of justification operative in Levinas enigmatic notion of ethics. This legitimation aims at both demystifying the paradoxical language of Levinas writing and rendering accessible his notion of ethics. In addition to providing a point of access to Levinas own thought, the dissertation helps t…Read more