Overview
Alex van Biema is a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University. The focus of Alex’s dissertation is on 20th century Dutch Caribbean literature.
Publications
- van Biema, Alexander, “Thinking the Impossible Survivance and Arrivance of the ‘Speaking Commodity’: Conjuring the Specters of Chris Hani, African Chattel Slavery, and Blackness in Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1994),” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy XXXIII, no. 1, pp. 65-77 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2025.1105.
- van Biema, Alex, ‘From the Slave Ship to Indentureship to the Oil Tanker: A Dutch Colonial Bloodbath in Curaçao’ (19 Jan. 2026), in Ali Meghji and Sam Okoth Opondo (eds), Legacy and Memory, in Meena Dhanda (ed.), Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context (Oxford, online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Mar. 2025 -), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945246.003.0203.
- Grant Farred, Sophia Jahadhmy, and Alex van Biema. 2026. Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.