Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean (ePub)

Marius Littschwager holds a PhD in Interamerican Studies and is postdoctoral research assistant in Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His publications include articles and essays on Edgar Allan Poe, Roberto Bolaño, Chilean exile literatures, recent Mexican fiction, and Caribbean cultures. Also operating as editor for the online journal fiar (Forum for Interamerican Research), he is responsible for Spanish speaking sections and contributions. His main fields of research are 20th- and 21st-century Latin American fiction, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Translations, and Visual Cultures of the Americas.

Annika McPherson is Juniorprofessor for New English Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany, president of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS), and an associate of the interdisciplinary Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research and teaching areas include postcolonial studies; theories, policies, and literary representations of cultural diversity in comparative perspective; Caribbean, West African, South African, and Indian literatures in English; diaspora studies; as well as speculative fiction and Afrofuturism. Her current project focuses on notions of enslavement and freedom in Anglophone fiction, poetry, film, and music.

Julia Roth is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the research network "The Americas as Space of Entanglements" at the Center for InterAmerican Studies and the department for North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Bielefeld University in Germany. Her research interests include postcolonial and gender approaches, critical race studies, intersectionality and global inequalities. Her current projects focus on gender and citizenship, Caribbean anti-racist feminisms, intersectionality, and hip hop and feminist knowledge production. Alongside her academic work, she organizes cultural-political events.