The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora
Transatlantic Musings
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ISBN-13:
9781138800168
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.09.2014
Seiten:
206
Autor:
Jerome C Branche
Gewicht:
431 g
Format:
229x150x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia. It captures diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or "location."
Introduction: Malungaje: Toward a Poetics of Diaspora 1. Dislocation and Re/membering: Ndongo and D'Aguiar Write the Middle Passage 2. Dislocation and Double Consciousness in Kamau Brathwaite: The Poet as Guinea-bird 3. Speaking Truth, Speaking Power: Of "Immigrants," Immanence, and Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Street 66" 4. Exile's Half-Life, Exile's Dead End: The Conundrum of Relocation in Equatoguinean Literature 5. Marcando Territorio (Marking Territory): Location as Project and Process in Colombia. Conclusion.
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