Call for papers
Call for Papers Black Panther and Postcolonial Critique Submission deadline: 1 March, 2019
The smashing success of Ryan Coogler’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther has stimulated countless interpretations built on terms orbiting around developments in the US, but there is another interpretative frame hiding in plain view that needs to be explored: the film's heavy reliance on dominant tropes of postcolonial critique, particularly its Black Atlantic/Black Studies inflections. Adeleke Adeeko is guest editing a special issue on Black Panther for The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry that proposes to examine this important film’s entanglements in the global histories that center on the Indian and Atlantic oceans and move from slave trading through Afropolitanism and négritude, to migritude and afro-futurism. Especially welcome are contributions that explore the film’s intertextual affiliations to discourses of diaspora and homelands. We invite explorations of the ethics of insularity and the reliance on Pan-Africanist ideals of liberation that pervade the film. We seek as well re-evaluations of the function of reflexive rituals of power and consciously artful sacralization as modes of governmentality, as well as the status of women in the construction and maintenance of utopias. Connections between the film and the history of Marvel's Black Panther comic books is also welcome.
8,000-word essays should be sent to the Editorial Assistant, Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang (pli@cambridge.org), to reach her no later than 1 March, 2019.
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