Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
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Auftaktveranstaltung zur Friedrich Dürrenmatt Gastprofessur mit Johny Pitts
Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... I travelled through Paris and Brussels, Amsterdam and Bern, Stockholm, Moscow, Rome, Marseille and Lisbon, and found a continent of Algerian markets, Surinamese shamans, German Reggae and North African architecture, a B-side of the continent often not mentioned in travel guides and tourist brochures. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning. – Johny Pitts
Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... I travelled through Paris and Brussels, Amsterdam and Bern, Stockholm, Moscow, Rome, Marseille and Lisbon, and found a continent of Algerian markets, Surinamese shamans, German Reggae and North African architecture, a B-side of the continent often not mentioned in travel guides and tourist brochures. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning. – Johny Pitts
Date of Publication
2024-03-04
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Conference Item
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Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft
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German literature
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Johny Pitts
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en
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open.access