MLA Commons | John E. Drabinski | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jdrabinski/activity/ Activity feed for John E. Drabinski. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:58:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a7531875438208406d42a3308fd78292 John E. Drabinski's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824572/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:07:39 -0500 0 7f6c11deee46dc7466a6d6275cba59bd John E. Drabinski deposited What is Trauma to the Future? On Glissant's Poetics in the group Latin America and the Caribbean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640415/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:29 -0400 This essay offers a reading of Glissant’s work on memory and history, arguing that traumatic experience is central to that work and consequent conceptions of identity. I explore the function of traumatic memory in relation to Glissant’s notions of the past and also futurity, both of which work with a sense of the painful past that simultaneously…[Read more]

]]> 0 98c9bec985b34c43472b7b2e636a5cd8 John E. Drabinski deposited What is Trauma to the Future? On Glissant's Poetics in the group Francophone Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640414/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:28 -0400 This essay offers a reading of Glissant’s work on memory and history, arguing that traumatic experience is central to that work and consequent conceptions of identity. I explore the function of traumatic memory in relation to Glissant’s notions of the past and also futurity, both of which work with a sense of the painful past that simultaneously…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bcc694fcd54ec9eda0cdd5cb49e0c2e John E. Drabinski deposited Vernaculars of Home in the group LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640380/ Fri, 17 May 2019 03:48:44 -0400 This essay examines James Baldwin’s conception of what he calls “black English” and its link to historical and cultural identity. I link Baldwin’s defense of black English to his reflections on the sor- row songs and sound, which draws on long-standing accounts of musicality as the foundation of the African-American tradition. In order to demonst…[Read more]

]]> 0 feccd3d3f3cb755fdbe49981e3f54b85 John E. Drabinski deposited Vernaculars of Home https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640367/ Fri, 17 May 2019 00:54:11 -0400 This essay examines James Baldwin’s conception of what he calls “black English” and its link to historical and cultural identity. I link Baldwin’s defense of black English to his reflections on the sor- row songs and sound, which draws on long-standing accounts of musicality as the foundation of the African-American tradition. In order to demonst…[Read more]

]]> 0 deb4aec68104d49da3a1fcf650d24876 John E. Drabinski deposited What is Trauma to the Future? On Glissant's Poetics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640360/ Fri, 17 May 2019 00:37:51 -0400 This essay offers a reading of Glissant’s work on memory and history, arguing that traumatic experience is central to that work and consequent conceptions of identity. I explore the function of traumatic memory in relation to Glissant’s notions of the past and also futurity, both of which work with a sense of the painful past that simultaneously…[Read more]

]]> 0 760a47a61756199bbe96162d759af945 John E. Drabinski deposited Separation, Difference, and Time in Godard's Ici et ailleurs https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640355/ Fri, 17 May 2019 00:27:27 -0400 An exploration of the temporal structure of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Ici et ailleurs, with particular attention to how Godard conceives an ethical relation to a transnational Other – the Palestinian.

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