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Catherine John is an
Associate Professor of Afro-Caribbean & African American and
Literature and Culture in the department of English. She is also
affiliated with both the African American Studies and the Film and
Video Studies programs here at the University of Oklahoma. She is
originally from Montego Bay and she spends her summers working in
Woodside, Jamaica with writer and historian Erna Brodber’s b l
a c k s p a c e program. Her book Clear Word and
Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African
Caribbean Writing was co-published by Duke University Press
(2003) and the University Press of the West Indies (2004). Her
current book-in-progress is entitled The Just Society and the
Diasporic Imagination. She has recently published “From
Nielsen Estate to Africa House: Ed“we”cation and Male/Female Relations
in Rural Woodside, Jamaica” in Caribbean Quarterly (2006) and
“Diaspora Consciousness and the Concept of Plenitude” in Shifting
the Geography of Reason: Gender, Science and Religion, Cambridge
Scholars Press (2006). She has also previously published
"Neo-Coloniality, Literary Representation, and the Problem of
Disciplinary Solutions" in Decolonizing the Academy in the
Twenty-First Century, Africa World Press (2003) and “Complicity,
Revolution, and Black Female Writing” in the journal Race &
Class (1999).
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