I am an Olivia Coleman gay. Also a scholar, writer, and translator. Views not my own, merely conditioned by ideology. RTs *are* endorsements. (he/him)
Feb 2, 2022 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Waiting in a vet hospital parking lot because my dog ate a sock, so here’s an idea for #BlackHistoryMonth — each day I’ll tweet a Black diasporic writer who is understudied, under-read, or whose work is not widely available. DAY 1: Auguste Lacaussade (1815-1897) {Réunion}
DAY 2: José Manuel Valdés (1767-1843) {Peru}
Physician, government official, and author of medical treatises, spiritual poetry, a biography of Saint Martín de Porres, and translations of the psalms #BlackHistoryMonth
Dec 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🌌 Sending into the universe 🌌
There’s an impt story to be told about Romance languages, translation, and multilingual black literature at Howard in the mid c20:
Alain Locke, W. Napoleon Rivers, Mercer Cook, Ben Carruthers, V.B. Spratlin, Martha Cobb, Miriam DeCosta-Willis…
Just reading though their work for a book chapter and I’ve already learned about several Afro-diasporic writers of c18-c19 that nobody is writing about or teaching or translating…?
Jan 22, 2019 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
I've seen a lot of buzz about @librarycongress acquiring the manuscript of Omar Ibn Said's memoir. This is exciting news, to be sure -- but the characterization of the event strikes me as unproductive in crucial ways #slaveryarchive#twitterstorians. 👇🏻Thread 1/20
First, it's important to note that this is a well-known text. It's included in Allan D. Austin's "African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook" (1984, rev. 1997)
