Seminar | Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life – The Power and The Pain of ‘The Below’: Constructing Histories of Invisibilised Black Lives
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series.
24 September 2024 Online 4:00PM – 5:30PM.
Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life – The Power and The Pain of ‘The Below’: Constructing Histories of Invisibilised Black Lives.
Speaker: Claudia Tomlinson (independent).
In this presentation, I discuss my PhD research (undertaken at the University of Chichester): ‘The Biography of Jessica Huntley, A Political History of Radical Black Activism’, which is to be published as Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life (Bloomsbury, 2024). My research charts a new narrative about the life of the British-Guiana born activist who made her mark on the political landscape in her homeland before migrating to London in 1953. I provide an analysis of her decolonising work in Britain, particularly through the establishment of Bogle L’Ouverture Publications, which she co-founded to uplift Black writing, lives, culture, and art. I reflect on my methodological approaches in conducting oral history interviews to construct an academic biography. I discuss my experience of working in archival spaces, confronting, and overcoming barriers. Within that discussion, I explore my approach to the ethics and processes of work with racialised trauma in constructing histories of radical black lives. In particular how do Black writers and researchers shield themselves, and others, from re-traumatisation when doing historical research? What are the masks we need to don to survive this research and ensure the health and wellbeing of others?
I discuss the differences between visible lives and invisible historical lives, how can the invisible become visible? Visible to whom? Lastly, I discuss my journey from PhD to publication. […]
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REGARDS CNRS (16 de septiembre de 2024). Seminar | Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life – The Power and The Pain of ‘The Below’: Constructing Histories of Invisibilised Black Lives. Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 23 de marzo de 2025 de https://doi.org/10.58079/12aws