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About Annette Joseph-Gabriel

NBN Episodes hosted by Annette:

General History July 5, 2019

To Turn the Whole World Over

Black Women and Internationalism

Keisha Blain and Tiffany Gill

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its significance to Black communities across the lines of class and …
Literary Studies December 20, 2018

Little Man, Little Man

A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production. The story was written by James Baldwin and illustrated by French artist Yoran Cazac. It was …
Literary Studies September 27, 2018

Postcolonial Paris

Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light

Laila Amine

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
At the heart of Laila Amine’s book is a crucial question: where is Paris? This question may be surprising for anyone who can readily point to the French capital on …
Literary Studies June 12, 2018

Bodyminds Reimagined

(Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction

Sami Schalk

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
What do werewolves, enslaved women and immortal beings have in common? And how can they shed light on contemporary questions of ableism and police brutality? In Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race …
Literary Studies April 20, 2018

Iola Leroy Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances E.W. Harper

Koritha Mitchell

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s nineteenth-century novel Iola Leroy has not always been considered a core text in the canon of African American literature. Indeed, throughout much of the twentieth century …
Literary Studies January 23, 2018

Architextual Authenticity

Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean

Jason Herbeck

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
What do gingerbread houses in Haiti teach us about the construction of identity in the French Caribbean? How do hurricanes and earthquakes reveal the connections between the tangible built environment …
Literary Studies December 20, 2017

Phantom Africa

A Conversation with the Translator, Brent Hayes Edwards

Michel Leiris

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Between 1931 and 1933, French writer Michel Leiris participated in a state-sponsored expedition to document the cultural practices of people in west and east Africa. The Mission Dakar-Djibouti employed some …
Literary Studies November 30, 2017

Grounds of Engagement

Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing

Stephane Robolin

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Writers have long created networks and connections by exchanging letters or writing back to one another in their poetry and fiction. Letters between Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, or …
Literary Studies October 26, 2017

Conflict Bodies

The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary

Regine Michelle Jean-Charles

Hosted by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Regine Jean-Charles' Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Ohio State University Press, 2014) foregrounds black women as speaking subjects in narrating and protesting sexual violence …