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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Hannah-Rose Murray
Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray researches formerly enslaved testimony in the Black Atlantic. During her PhD thesis, It is Time for the Slaves to Speak: Transatlantic Abolitionism and African American Resistance (contracted with Cambridge University Press), she theorized an interdisciplinary concept called ‘adaptive resistance’, in which she argues that activists adapted to the climate and region they spoke in, and to the people they lectured to, in order to win support for abolition. Murray has developed a digital humanities project, www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com, where she has mapped the speaking locations of African American abolitionists in the British Isles. She has organised talks, exhibitions, community events and plays on both sides of the Atlantic.
University of Nottingham