Jerome C Branche

The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora

Transatlantic Musings

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Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780415787949
• ISBN-10: 0415787947
• Artikelnr.: 49678707

Autorenporträt

Jerome C. Branche is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

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.