Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Englert, Birgit; Thomsen, Sigrid; Gföllner, Barbara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of mobility studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000399042
• Artikelnr.: 61690366

Autorenporträt

Birgit Englert is Associate Professor in African History and Society at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, and a key researcher of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies. Barbara Gföllner is a scholar of American Studies and French Studies at the University of Vienna and a member of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies. Sigrid Thomsen is a scholar of Comparative Literature and American Studies at the University of Vienna and a member of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Forging a New Approach to African-Caribbean Mobilities 1. Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean: Introduction 2. A Mobile Scholar Across the Atlantic: The Guyanese Historian-Activist Walter Rodney (1942-1980) as an Intellectual Nexus Between the Caribbean and Africa 3. "REPATRIATION: YES! MIGRATION: NO!" Back-to-Africa in Rastafarian Thought and Practice 4. Being Shashamane Sew: Second-Generation Caribbean Rastafari in Multicultural Ethiopia 5. "I'm Hungry for Connection": Artistic Collectivity and Ceremonial Encounters in African-Caribbean Relations 6. The Routes of Soundpoems: Nation Language in Central America 7. Moving Spirits, Shifting Bodies: Connecting Africa and the Caribbean in Literature 8. Zombie Travels: Middle Passage Journeys and Clandestine Migrant Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone African and Afrodiasporic Fiction 9. "Don't Get Too Comfortable": Regimes of Motility in Shailja Patel's Migritude 10. Homegoing: A Personal Reflection on Shared Experiences within Yoruba and Jamaican Heritage