AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)

Publications and talks

Publications

A. Frison, Black Figurines. Peoples of the Dark Continent in the Russian Journal “Vsemirnaia illiustratsiia”, “eSamizdat, 2022, XV, p. 175-191, available at https://www.esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/eS/article/view/166

A. Frison (ed. by), Images of Africa. The Czech and Russian Reception (19th-early 20th century), “eSamizdat”, 2022, XV, p. 159-208, available at https://www.esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/eS/issue/view/27

A. Frison, On Colonial Bodies. Poetics and Politics of Blackness in Russian Modernism, “Journal of European Studies” – upcoming (2024)

A. Frison, Black Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: The Dark Continent in Travel Literature, Ethnography and the Arts (1850-1917) – monograph, upcoming (2025)

Conferences

A. Frison, Africa anni Venti. Scritti sovietici sul continente nero, Conference “20/Venti. Nuovi studi sulla cultura russa e sovietica degli anni Venti del XX secolo”, Roma Tre University, 15-16 December 2022.

A. Frison, Towards a “colonialism without colonies”? Constructing ‘Black Africa’ in Late Imperial Russia, “BASEES Annual Conference 2023”, University of Glasgow, 31 March – 2 April 2023.

A. Frison, On Colonial Bodies: Poetics and Politics of Blackness in Russian Modernism, international workshop “Blackness Imagery and Colonial Fantasies in East Central European Modernism(s)”, Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt University, Berlin, 21-22 September 2023.

A. Frison, Modernity, Exoticism, and the Colonial Space: Nikolai Gumilev’s Mik, international conference “The Modernist Long Poem and its Discontents”, Paris, ENS-NYU Paris, 19-20 September 2024.


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