Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Bio

Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu is a third year Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in the Department of English at Cornell University. She studies twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone poetry and poetics, world literature, globalization, and comparative black studies. Through both close-reading and distant-reading methodologies, her dissertation considers a set of Anglophone poets from the late twentieth century to present day, focusing on how these poets fostered cross-national and cross-cultural solidarities.

Contributions

Poetry from Afar: Distant Reading, Global Poetics, and the Digital Humanities

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In the spring of 2019, a new and welcome contact of mine in Ghana sent me a PDF of an anthology he had put together with a number of promising, young African poets. Through conversations with those involved with the making of the anthology, I began to note that these writers and editors are part of my intellectual and creative social-network and members of my living archive. In the days following my reading of the anthology, it struck me that the only reason I was able to have access not only to...

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