Elahe Haschemi Yekani - Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel

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The research for this book began at Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin and, over the course of several stations and more years, has also brought me back felicitously to Berlin. It is therefore my great pleasure to begin by acknowledging those colleagues who have supported this project from its inception like Eveline Kilian, Helga Schwalm, Martin Klepper and Eva Boesenberg and who are now among the many old but also new colleagues, such as Dorothea Lbbermann, Anne Potjans, Jasper Verlinden and Sigrid Venu in the Department of English and American Studies that I also wish to thank. I further want to express my gratitude to Gabriele Jhnert and the colleagues at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies and especially mention Stefanie von Schnurbein as well as Gabriele Dietze, whose many recommendations (literary and culinary) are an indispensable source of support in my development as a scholar. Magdalena Nowicka and Silvy Chakkalakal have also become great co-conspirators in Berlin. The University of Potsdam was another more than welcoming context to discuss this work, especially with my criticalhabitations collaborator Anja Schwarz but also with Lars Eckstein and Dirk Wiemann in the Department of English and American Studies there. At the University of Innsbruck in Austria Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Veronika Schuchter have been excellent interlocutors to think more about Uncommon Wealths. A generous fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz provided me with the great privilege and luxury to focus extensively on my sources and discuss early readings with engaged co-fellows overlooking Lake Constance. For the hospitality and support there, I want to extend my gratitude to the entire KuKo-Team as well as to Aleida Assmann and Silvia Mergenthal and I also wish to thank Gudrun Rath, another criticalhabitations collaborator, who made the stay in Konstanz more fun. From the most Southern German university it took me to the most Northern University in Germany and it was at the Europa-Universitt Flensburg that I was able to complete the biggest chunk of this manuscript, again in the company of great colleagues like Sibylle Machat and Birgit Dwes and many more. Ines Beeck, Seren Meltem Yilmaz, Leandra Gpner, Thao Ho and Alina Weiermller have been excellent student assistants whose help in locating materials is greatly appreciated.

I have had the great honour and privilege to present various sections of this work in many settings in Germany and abroad and I cannot thank all my hosts by name here but do want to acknowledge the support from Lisa Duggan and Ann Pellegrini during my time as a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU. Tavia Nyongo was a great sport in agreeing to co-teach a group of dedicated students at the Queer Entanglements Summer Academy of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation in Greifswald with me and later again joined me and Eva Boesenberg back in Berlin to discuss Entangled Diasporas. Mita Banerjee has been an excellent mentor in navigating the pitfalls of (German) academia.

In preparing the manuscript my Palgrave Macmillan editors Lina Aboujieb and Rebecca Hinsley and the reports of the anonymous reviewers have been extremely helpful. Thanks are also due to Amy Luo and Malin Sthl from Hollybush Gardens gallery in London and Lynda Jackson from the Judges Lodgings Museum in Lancaster for their help in locating pictures of Lubaina Himids installation.

Finally, a book on familial feeling cannot come into existence without the love and support of friends and family, again too many to list them all. I want to thank Henriette Gunkel, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen, Marie Schlingmann and Samantha Buck, Noemi Yoko Molitor and Marika Pierdicca, Anson Koch-Rein as well as Ali, Minu and Maryam Haschemi Yekani. My parents have been the best cheerleaders one can wish for. Thank you. And last and certainly not least, my love and gratitude go out to Beatrice Michaelis, without whose patience and support none of this would have been possible.