1st Edition
Reading Wayde Compton Geohistorical (Re)Constructions of Black Vancouver
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Writing against Elision: The Role of Hogan’s Alley and Heritage Circulations in the Re-rooting of Black Vancouver
Chapter 2: Hip hop Aesthetics and Remixing Genealogies: Decentring the Western Universality from the Margins
Chapter 3: The Trickster’s Disruptive Liminality: Remixing Blackness in the Diasporic Crossroads
Chapter 4: Otherwise Vancouver in “The Lost Island”: From a Dialectic of Conquest to Transmodern Coalitions of Solidarity
Chapter 5: Multiculturalism-from-below in The Outer Harbour. Towards a Transmodern Cosmopolitanism
Conclusions
Index
Biography
Fernando Pérez-García is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oviedo, Spain, and a member of the consolidated research group Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories, and the University Institute in Gender and Diversity. His research focuses on the intersection of race, space and gender in contemporary Black Canadian literature from the perspective of the transmodern paradigm, Black (Diaspora) Studies and Spatial Literary Studies.
