Drawing on her own experiences, Genevieve Makaping spins the customary gaze of anthropology around, and the gaze that in colonial ethnography was directed at the so-called uncivilized indigenous and Black peoples, now focuses on the white majority as seen from her point of view.
Drawing on her own experiences, Genevieve Makaping spins the customary gaze of anthropology around, and the gaze that in colonial ethnography was directed at the so-called uncivilized indigenous and Black peoples, now focuses on the white majority as seen from her point of view.
GENEVIÈVE MAKAPING is an adjunct professor in French language and culture at the University of Mantova in Italy, and has taught English at the high school level since 2013. Makaping was born in Cameroon and has lived in Italy since 1982. SIMONE BRIONI is an associate professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University in New York. He is the author of The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in Minor Italian Literature and editor of Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora (Rutgers University Press). VICTORIA OFFREDI POLETTO (Senior Lecturer Emerita) and GIOVANNA BELLESIA CONTUZZI (Professor and Chair) have taught and collaborated together in the Department of Italian Studies at Smith College since 1990. They are committed to bringing the voices of migrant and second-generation women writers to the English-speaking world. Their many translations include Adrian Bravi’s My Language is a Jealous Lover, Gabriella Ghermandi’s Queen of Flowers and Pearls, and Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother. CATERINA ROMEO is an associate professor of literary criticism and comparative literature at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale [Rewrite the Nation: Postcolonial Italian Literature.
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Foreword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach Caterina Romeo Translators’ Note Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto Editor’s Note Simone Brioni Reversing the Gaze Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism Geneviève Makaping 1. The Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Immigrant Woman 2. End of the Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Woman 3. My Not Very Personal Diary 4. To Belong, But to Which Tribe? 5. Call Me Negra 6. The Difficulty of Dialoguing within the Margin 7. The Anthropology of the Other 8. Harassment and More 9. Daily Experiences 10. The Many Shades of Black 11. Participant Observation of an Eccentric Subject Acknowledgments Glossary References About the Author, Editor, and Translators
Foreword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach Caterina Romeo Translators’ Note Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto Editor’s Note Simone Brioni Reversing the Gaze Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism Geneviève Makaping 1. The Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Immigrant Woman 2. End of the Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Woman 3. My Not Very Personal Diary 4. To Belong, But to Which Tribe? 5. Call Me Negra 6. The Difficulty of Dialoguing within the Margin 7. The Anthropology of the Other 8. Harassment and More 9. Daily Experiences 10. The Many Shades of Black 11. Participant Observation of an Eccentric Subject Acknowledgments Glossary References About the Author, Editor, and Translators
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