periferias
By KJCC Podcasts
periferiasFeb 15, 2022
Nick Jones
On today's episode, a conversation with Professor Nick Jones, kjcc Scholar-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Spanish at UC Davis. We discuss Blackness in/and the Early Modern period, 'bandwagonism' in the field, period drama and the popular representation of difference, alongside our personal attractions to and definitions of the premodern. And of course, Cervantes and the Quijote!
Episode Notes
Prof. Jones’ book Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (3:40)
Barbara Fuchs, Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain (9:23)
Dr. Michael Gomez, NYU Faculty Page and Publications (18:23)
Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (19:57)
Chloe Eirton in Renaissance Quarterly Black Africans' Freedom Litigation Suits... (20:23)
David Wheat, Atlantic Africa (21:24)
Jennifer Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (27:22)
Prof. Jones edited volume, Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining sex and the visceral in pre-modern and early modern Spanish cultural production (27:32)
Prof. Jones’ piece “Cervantes and the Matter of Black Lives” Full text here (33:37)
Jodie Turner Smith as Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn Limited Series Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes TV (48:50)
Dantaé Elliot
A conversation with Dantaé Elliot on fruit hats, The Young and the Restless, ‘touristing’ in her native Jamaica and the eloquent photography of Nadia Huggins. The episode features a special treat: Dantaé reads her forthcoming poem, “A me fi tell yuh”.
Christopher Cozier (13:04) https://racespaceplace.com/people-draft/christopher-cozier/
Angelique Nixon (26:58) Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Carmen Miranda (15:49) Carmen Miranda "Chica Chica Boom Chic"
Vladimir Cybil, Fruit Hat (16:50) https://www.vladimircybil.com/
Lélia Gonzalez, Brazilian Feminist and Scholar (22:00) For an Afro-Latin American Feminism
Forgotten Lands (28:14) Pre-Order Volume 4
Nadia Huggins (45:59) https://nadiahuggins.com/
Circa No Future (47:53)(#7 in toggle) https://nadiahuggins.com/Circa-no-future
Transformations (50:46) https://nadiahuggins.com/Transformations
Is that a Buoy? (55:05) https://nadiahuggins.com/Is-that-a-buoy
For a transcript of this episode, notes, and links to view the discussed images please visit kjcc.org/initiatives/periferias-the-podcast
Luis Francia
In this episode, we present a conversation on poetry and language featuring personal and shared histories in and from the Philippines with Luis Francia. Our dialogue roams with the poet, playwright and nonfiction writer through the layered colonialism of his homeland to his evocative poems on identity and diaspora. The pod is a counterclockwise journey that takes us ultimately across the Pacific five centuries ago, arriving (back) on the eve of Magellan's death.
Luis Francia is a Manileño and now a New Yorker. His first full-length play, The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz, had its world premiere at the Bindlestiff Theater, San Francisco, in 2012. In 2014, The Beauty of Ghosts, a theatre of poetry, was staged at Topaz Arts in Queens. And in April of 2021, his Black Henry, on Ferdinand Magellan’s 1521 ill-fated landfall in the Philippines, was virtually staged by the Atlantic Pacific Theatre Group and produced by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and Sulo: the Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU.
His poetry collections include Thorn Grass (2021), Tattered Boat (2015), and The Beauty of Ghosts (2010). Nonfiction works include the memoir Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, winner of both the 2002 PEN Open Book Award and the 2002 Asian American Writers Award, and A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. He is in the Library of America’s Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing.
He has had grants and fellowships from among others the Queens Council of the Arts, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Arts Colony.
He has taught writing workshops at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Yale, City University of Hong Kong, and Ateneo de Manila University. He teaches Filipino language and culture at New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.