1st Edition
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora Transatlantic Musings
By Jerome C. Branche
Copyright 2015
206 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or “location.” Branche’s study connects London’s... Read more
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.
Biography
Jerome C. Branche is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
