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The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online

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30 Sep, 2021

The Digital Dead Yard: Articulating Caribbean Loss and Mourning Online

with Kelly Baker Josephs
Professor of English at York College, CUNY

Moderated by Professor Minoo Moallem, Director of Media Studies

Presented by Media Studies and co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department and BCNM.

Register for the Zoom link here!

This presentation theorizes Caribbean cultural production in communal digital spaces, with a particular focus on the “digital dead yard,” a virtual space for healing, mourning, and memory. This work is part of a larger project, Caribbean Articulations: Storytelling in a Digital Age, that examines how technologies have helped not only to forge a Caribbean literary aesthetic but also to shape the very idea of the Caribbean as a region simultaneously bound by and situated beyond conventional geographic and temporal boundaries.

About Kelly Baker Josephs

Kelly Baker Josephs is Professor of English at York College, CUNY, and Professor of English and digital humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2013), co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and co-organizer of the annual Caribbean Digital conferences.

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