Author: Tikkun Bambara
Tikkun is interested in Caribbean Surrealist Studies and Caribbean romanticism. 20th and 21st century Caribbean and African American feminist engagements with what surrealist poet Suzanne Cesaire called the domain of ‘the marvelous’ as a fertile theory, worldview, and method in black studies and black diasporic literatures. Tikkun’s research engages the surrealist dimensions of black studies and black poetics. Tikkun’s thematic interests include black utopian thought in the black radical tradition, fugitive and kinship studies in black thought, and critical university studies.
He currently holds a position teaching Critical Ethnic Studies in Minnesota. He is the founder of a local art cooperative in South Minneapolis for Black Artists. Bambara has received the Verve Grant, the Beyond the Pure Fellowship, The Emerging Writers Grant, and The Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for his work. His essays are available at Mn Artists through the Walker Art Center.