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    Black Feminist Constellations
    Dialogue and Translation Across the Americas

    Christen A. Smith (Edited by), Lorraine Leu (Edited by)

    9781477328293

    Hardback, published 5 December 2023

    336 pages, 35 color photos, 43 b&w photos
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.708 kg

    On their own, the authors and interlocutors of this volume shine brightly, but when acknowledged together, they guide us to ways of thinking, fighting, and living in radically just ways.
    (E3W: Ethnic and Third World Literatures)

    A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.

    Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art, and political organizing by Black women everywhere.

    In essays, poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black women come together to theorize the world and challenges the notion that the university is the only site where knowledge can emerge. A major work of intellectual history, Black Feminist Constellations amplifies rarely heard voices, centers the uncanonized, and celebrates the overlooked work of Black women.

    • The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance (Elizandra Souza
      translation by Christen A. Smith)
    • Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance (Elizandra Souza)
    • Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction (Christen Smith and Lorraine Leu)
    • Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life
      • Oriki to Sueli (Elizandra Souza
        translation by Luana Moreira Reis)
      • 1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical (Sueli Carneiro
        translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith)
      • 2. Black Women’
        s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Sueli Carneiro
        translation and editing by Lorraine Leu)
      • 3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to “
        Feminism”
        ? (Florencia Gomes
        translation by Daisy E. Guzman NuÑ
        ez)
      • 4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina (Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles
        introduction, interview, and translation by Prisca Gayles)
      • 5. Intimate Poetics: World-Making through Cuidado de la Vida (Care of Life) in and beyond the Borders of Colombia (SofÍ
        a GarzÓ
        n and Yineth Balanta Mina
        introduction by Alysia Mann Carey
        translation by Keturah Nichols )
      • 6. Black Women’
        s Epistemological Contributions: Afro-Mexican Women in the Twenty-First Century (Itza Amanda Varela Huerta
        translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman NuÑ
        ez)
      • 7. Black Women’
        s Struggle in Mexico: Anti-racism, Community Organization, and Reparation Politics (A conversation between Rosa MarÍ
        a Castro Salinas, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, and Meztli Yoalli RodrÍ
        guez Aguilera
        introduction by Meztli Yoalli RodrÍ
        guez Aguilera
        translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman NuÑ
        ez and Alida Perrine)
      • 8. Beyond Words: Fugitive Embodiments, Creative Praxis, and Trans-Intellectual Genealogies for Black Life (A conversation between Dora Santana and Michaela Machicote
        introduction by Michaela Machicote)
    • Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought
      • 9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims (Carole Boyce Davies)
      • 10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye’
        s Radical Praxis (D. Alissa Trotz)
      • 11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations--Audre Lorde and Andaiye
      • 12. A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) (Bedour Alagraa)
      • 13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas (A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa)
      • 14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil (Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu
        translation by Lorraine Leu)
      • 15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’
        s Insubordinate Geohistories (Lorraine Leu)
      • 16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers’
        Lived Experiences and Ancestralities (Elizandra Souza
        translation by Christen A. Smith)
    • Coda. Whirlwind Women/Mulheres redemoinhos (Elizandra Souza
      translation by Luana Moreira Reis)
    • Acknowledgments
    • Editors, Contributors, and Translators
    • Index

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