Volume 17, Issue 1 (2007) Literacy, Expression and the Language of Resistence
The Trotter Review, which has been published for over fifteen years, is entering a new phase. That is what the current issue represents, a marriage of old and new, a branching out into expanded territory that does not betray, we hope, the ideals or principles of the past.
What we have put together is historical and cultural and political. We raise questions. We draw connections and provide context as we focus on the local, the national, the international, and the diasporic. In addition, we give cognizance to the literary, as an expression of the urge to order the real, to give it utterance, or, as Chuck D would say, to bow to the power of the pad.
We wanted to sample the range of work that the Trotter has produced, and for that reason, many of the articles and essays are drawn from papers that the Trotter Institute has published as monographs over the years. There is a theme here, and it is the resistance of the African-inflected spirit, generation after generation, community after community, and country after country in an internecine war that has not yet come to an end.
Front Matter
Articles
Introduction
Barbara Lewis
Black Expressive Art, Resistant Cultural Politics, and the [Re] Performance of Patriotism
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Tapping the Wisdom of Our Ancestors: An Attempt to Recast Vodou and Morality through the Voice of Mama Lola and Karen McCarthy Brown
Claudine Michel
Madre Patria (Mother Country): Latino Identity and Rejections of Blackness
Marta I. Cruz-Janzen
Race in Feminism: Critiques of Bodily Self-Determination in Ida B. Wells and Anna Julia Cooper
Stephanie Athey
Pastor Brunson's Shofar
Richard Tenorio
Commentary
Clyde Taylor
Back Matter
Editors
- Editor
- Barbara Lewis
- Associate Editor
- Alix Cantave
- Managing Editor At-Large
- Patricia Peterson