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Notes
1. Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, 5.
2. Interview with Sharpe, “What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?”
3. Buchan, “Nigel Farage condemned for boat trip into English Channel to report migrant ‘invasion’.”
4. Celikates, ‘Borders in Times of Pandemic.’
5. Ibid.
6. Perera, “Burning Our Boats,” 6.
7. De Genova, “Citizenship’s Shadow,” 24
8. Ibid.
9. Finley et al., “Visualizing Protest,” 316.
10. Ai, Human Flow.
11. Mortensen, “Constructing, confirming and contesting icons.”
12. Demos, “The Visual Politics of Climate Refugees,” 90.
13. Ibid., 108.
14. Finley et al., “Visualizing Protest,” 318.
15. Danewid, “White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean.”
16. Ibid., 1675.
17. Alessandro di Maio, cited in Smythe, “The Black Mediterranean and the Politics of Imagination.”
18. Jones, Violent Borders, 15.
19. Ibid., 3.
20. Perera, “Burning our Boats,” 4.
21. Liquid Traces: The Left-to-die boat.
22. Jones, Violent Borders, 24.
23. Heller and Pezzani, “Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier,” 673.
24. Smythe, “The Black Mediterranean and the Politics of Imagination,” 5.
25. McKittrick, “Mathematics Black Life,” 16.
26. Mare Nostrum, as SA Smythe notes, was a contemporary revival of the phrase used in the Roman Empire to denote authority over ‘our sea’.
27. Jones, Violent Borders, 25.
28. Woods and Saucier, “Ex-Aqua,” 68-69.
29. Ibid., 68.
30. Ibid., 55.
31. Naffis-Sahely, “Translator’s Introduction,” 1.
32. Ibid., 2.
33. Subhatu, Aulò! Aulò! Aulò!, 3.
34. Paynter and Miller, “The White Readymade and the Black Mediterranean.”
35. Pritchard, “‘Our boat’”
36. Ibid.
37. Makonnen, “When Drowning is the Best Option.”
38. Ibid.
39. Walcott, “The Black Aquatic,” 66-9.
40. Ibid., 71.
41. Finley at al. “Visualizing Protest,” 324.
42. Smythe, “The Black Mediterranean and the Politics of Imagination,” 4.
43. Ibid., 5.
44. Sankey and Westbrook, “An Interview with John Akomfrah.”
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Demos, “On Terror and Beauty.”
48. Sharpe, In the Wake, 3.
49. Ibid., 13.
50 Demos, “On Terror and Beauty.”
51. Wilderson, “The Vengeance of Vertigo.”
52. T.J. Demos, “Unspeakable Moments: An Interview with John Akomfrah,” 59.
53. Rodney, “Making Room to take in the Depth of John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea.”
54. Walcott, “The Black Aquatic,” 65.
55. Vikram, “Underneath the Black Atlantic.”
56. Walcott, “The Black Aquatic,” 63.
57. Woods and Saucier, “Ex-Aqua,” 69.
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Ellie Byrne
Dr Ellie Byrne is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary and Postcolonial Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research and teaching covers twentieth-century British, American and Postcolonial literature and theory, children’s literature, trauma, feminism and queer theory.
She is the author of Deconstructing Disney and Homi K. Bhabha, and has published on Tove Jansson, Hilary Mantel, Muriel Spark, Ali Smith, queer hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and Orientalism. Recent work has included ‘Brexit Wounds: Arts and Humanities responses to leaving the EU’ (Open Arts Journal, Summer 2020), ‘Hanya Yanagihara’s Dark Archaeology of Anthropology’ (Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) and ‘The Globalised Garden: Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonial Gothic’ (WAGADU: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, SUNY, 2018). She was co-investigator on the British Academy funded network, ‘Troubling Globalisation: Arts and Humanities Approaches’ 2016-17. Email: [email protected]