The popular stream of images about Africa and black culture that populate Western media platforms were largely constructed based on narratives drawn from travelogue and expedition accounts by European slavers, colonizers, adventurers, and trophy hunters, images that represent Africa as an unchanging wilderness beyond the borders of civilization. What are the historical consequences of such trending literary narratives about black heritage and how can such images, reflective of a hegemonized social order, be challenged and subverted? Are there alternative literary forms of expression that have an intrinsic liberating effect of subverting the shackles imposed by the travelogue writers? If so, how did those originate and how do they work? These and many more, are some of the questions we will be addressing in this webinar by examining the Brer Rabbit trickster institution in black literature.
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