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SUMMARY:Inhabitants of the Deep
LOCATION:Donovan Lounge (Greenlaw 223)
DESCRIPTION:In Inhabitants of the Deep\, Jonathan Howard undertakes a blac
 k ecocritical study of the deep in African American literature. Howard co
 ntends that the deep – a geographic formation that includes oceans\, rive
 rs\, lakes\, and the notion of depth itself – provides the diffuse subtex
 t of black literary and expressive culture. He draws on texts by authors 
 ranging from Olaudah Equiano and Herman Melville to Otis Redding and Augu
 st Wilson to present a vision of blackness as an ongoing inhabitation of 
 the deep that originates with and persists beyond Middle Passage. From ca
 ptive Africans’ first tentative encounter with the landless realm of the 
 Atlantic to the ground on which black peoples still struggle to stand\, t
 he deep is what blackness has known throughout the changing same of black
  life and death. Yet this radical exclusion from the superficial Western 
 world\, Howard contends\, is more fully apprehended not as the social dea
 th hailed by the slave ship but as the black ecological life hailed by a 
 blue planet.\n\nDr. Howard is an Assistant Professor of English and Black
  Studies at Yale University. His research focuses on African American lit
 erary studies\, intellectual traditions of the African Diaspora\, and the
  environmental humanities. Broadly investigating how western ideas of rac
 e and nature contribute to our current ecological crisis\, his research c
 enters Black expressive culture as a vital site of ecological thought and
  practice. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awar\n\nhttp:/
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