Sarah M. Quesada (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25

Sarah Quesada drafted two chapters of her work in progress, now titled Solidarity in Difference: Greater Mexico, African Decolonization, and Latin-African Literature. She also developed and revised two other chapters that had been incomplete drafts. 

She wrote several essays that are now forthcoming and available:

• “Jean Franco, African Marxism, and the Birth of South-South Studies” for PMLA
• “What was African Decolonization to Afrolatinidad?: Aracelis Girmay and the Logic of Displacement” for Harvard Theological Review
• “On Sites in South-South Methodologies” for Global South Studies

She also finalized coediting a cluster of essays for Global South Studies which were published this spring, titled “Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures.” She also cowrote the introduction, titled “South-South Constellations, Latin America and Africa” with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra. For this project, Quesada translated a contribution for this cluster of essays from Spanish to English titled “Toward a (Re)Writing of Africa and the Americas” by Jean-Arsène Yao. Quesada also cowrote with Irma López the “Foreword” for the translation of Mexican writer María Luisa Puga’s novel Las posibilidades del odio (The Possibilities of Hate) into English. She also pitched the translation project to Bucknell University Press. 

Finally, Quesada finished editing proofs of the now published chapter, “Latinx Internationalism, French Orientalism, and a Nuyorican Morocco,” for the edited volume, Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848–1992, edited by John Alba Cutler and Marissa K. López with Cambridge University Press.