African American & African Studies

Frances Bell’s research examines follows several thousand people who were taken as slaves from revolutionary Haiti to the U.S. by enslavers fleeing the revolution.

My book offers a critique of this ideal of transparency by turning to a global collection of African and African diasporic writers who reimagined ideals of ethical and equitable relations by revaluing opacity, nebulosity, unreadability, and the non-revelatory in their novels, poetry, and art.