Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature

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Notes Introduction 1. Garvey, “A Talk with Afro-West Indians,” 57. 2. Goethe and Eckermann, Conversations, 265–66 (translation modified). 3. Ibid., 227; Damrosch, What Is World Literature, 3. 4. Quoted in Strich, Goethe and World Literature, 32. 5. Quoted in Schulz and Rhein, Comparative Literature: The Early Years, 11; Strich, Goethe and World Literature, 5. 6. Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, 476–77. 7. Blyden, “Arabic Manuscript,” 71. 8. Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism, xiii. 9. Blyden, “Arabic Manuscript,” 71. 10. Al-Hariri appears, for example, in Omar ibn Sa‘id’s 1819 letter. See Hunwick , “I Wish to Be Seen in Our Land Called Afrika,” 63–65. Blyden, “Arabic Manuscript,” 72. 11. “A Letter from the King of Musadu,” 134–35. 12. See Holt, “Narrative and the Reading Public in 1870s Beirut.” 13. Blyden, “Arabic Manuscript,” 73. 14. Mufti, “Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures,” 465–66. See also Hoesel-Uhlig, “Changing Fields.” 15. Blyden, “Arabic Manuscript,” 69–70. 16. Ibid., 96. 17. Hoesel-Uhlig, “Changing Fields,” 39. 18. Douglass, “Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered,” 285. 19. Roach, Cities of the Dead, 45. 20. Cf. Dimock, Through Other Continents, 5. 21. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 141. 22. Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic, 20. 23. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 141. 24. Gilroy, Black Atlantic, 197, 212. 25. Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 262; Hartman, “Time of Slavery,” 768, 772. 148 Notes to Introduction 26. Scott, “Archaeologies of Black Memory,” vi. 27. Mufti, “Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures,” 466; Glissant , Poetics of Relation, 7; Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory, unpaged. 28. Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel, 194–95. 29. Moretti, “Conjectures on World Literature,” 58. 30. Casanova, World Republic of Letters, 21. 31. Hartman, “Time of Slavery,” 764. 32. Cf. Edwards, “Uses of Diaspora.” 33. Cited in Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic, 210. 34. Fabre, “René Maran, The New Negro, and Négritude,” 340, 341. 35. Egonu, “Le Prix Goncourt de 1921 et la ‘Querelle de Batouala,’” 539. 36. Hemingway, review of Batouala, 2. 37. Locke, “La jeune poésie africo-américaine,” col. 2. Translation in Edwards, Practice of Diaspora, 113. 38. Edwards, Practice of Diaspora, 113. 39. Harris and Moleworth, Alain L. Locke, 72–78. 40. Dixon, “Toward a World Black Literature and Community.” 41. “Je n’ai été là qu’un appareil à enregistrer.” Quoted in Edwards, Practice of Diaspora, 88. 42. Ibid., 90. 43. Casanova, World Republic of Letters, 226. 44. Ibid. 45. Fabre, “René Maran, The New Negro, and Négritude,” 348–49. 46. Walkowitz, Cosmopolitan Style, 1–32; Hart, Nations of Nothing but Poetry, 3–25. 47. Roach, Cities of the Dead, 11. 48. Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 65. 49. Moses, Afrotopia, 21. 50. Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 263. 51. Walkowitz, Cosmopolitan Style; Hart, Nations of Nothing but Poetry. 52. Clark, “Developing Diaspora Literacy and Marasa Consciousness,” 40. 53. Hurston, “Characteristics of Negro Expression,” 830. 54. Denning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds, 5–6. 55. Branche, Colonialism and Race, 178. 56. Walcott, Ti-Jean and His Brothers, in Dream on Monkey Mountain, and Other Plays, 85. 57. Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 62. Chapter 1: World Literature and Antiquity 1. Moses, Afrotopia, 22. 2. Pope, “Ägypten und Aufhebung,” 184. 3. Damrosch, What Is World Literature, 12. 149 Notes to Chapter 1 4. Roach, Cities of the Dead, 2. 5. Quoted in Schulz and Rhein, Comparative Literature: The Early Years, 6. 6. Quoted in Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back, 173. 7. Volney, Ruins, 16. 8. Walker, Appeal, 22, 10. 9. Ibid., 22. 10. Douglass, “Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered,” 288. 11. Bruce, “Ancient Africa and the Early Black Historians,” 685. 12. Keita, Race and the Writing of History, 44. 13. Wheatley, “To Maecenas,” in Poems of Phillis Wheatley, 9. 14. Pope, “Ägypten und Aufhebung,” 185. 15. Mudimbe, Invention of Africa, 132. 16. Blyden, Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race, 82. 17. Blyden, “Negro in Ancient History,” 10. 18. Ibid., 15. 19. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 2.35–4.58. 20. Blyden, “Negro in Ancient History,” 9. 21. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 2.35–4.58. Partially quoted in Delany, Principia of Ethnology, 32. 22. Delany, Principia of Ethnology, 46. 23. Ibid. 24. Ibid. 25. Blyden, Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race, 276. 26. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, 162. Hereafter cited parenthetically. 27. Weheliye, “Grooves of Temporality,” 321. 28. Baucom, Specters...