scholarly journals From Slave Ship to Harvard: An Interview with James H. Johnston

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Donald A. Yerxa
Keyword(s):  
Slave Ship

From Slave Ship to Harvard

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Slave Ship

The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
TERESA E. LESLIE
Keyword(s):  
Human History ◽  
Slave Ship

Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra’s Space Is the Place

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Stüttgen
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
Sun Ra ◽  
Oriented Response ◽  
Slave Ship ◽  
American Vernacular ◽  
Paul Gilroy

The film Space Is the Place (1974), directed by John Coney, stars Sun Ra who was also co-author of the script. This chapter explores Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism as shown in the film, bringing it into relation with José Muñoz’s notion of a queer future. Rather than focusing on Sun Ra’s sexuality, this chapter argues that his quareness (E. Patrick Johnson’s useful term drawn from African American vernacular) emerges in the sonic and performative aspects of his work. Sun Ra’s spaceship offers a future-oriented response to the slave ship and Middle Passage (as described by Paul Gilroy) and to the limitations of the here and now. The notion of assemblage (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari) articulates the quareness of Sun Ra’s collective improvisational practices.

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