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The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora Jerome C. Branche (University of Pittsburgh)

The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora By Jerome C. Branche (University of Pittsburgh)

The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora by Jerome C. Branche (University of Pittsburgh)


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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. It captures diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or location.

The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora Summary

The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings by Jerome C. Branche (University of Pittsburgh)

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 multimillion-dollar riots of 2011, and its antecedents associated with the West Indian settler community, to the discontent and harrowing conditions facing black immigrants to contemporary Spain as gateway to Fortress Europe. It links the brutal massacres that target Colombia's dispossessed and displaced poor - and mainly black - throwaway citizens, victims of the drug trade and neoliberal expansionism, to older Caribbean stories that tell of the original spurts of capitalist greed, and the colonial cauldron it created, at the center of which lay the slave trade. In revisiting the question of what really has awaited Afro-descendants at the end of the Middle Passage, this volume brings transatlantic slavery, the making of weak postcolonial states that bleed people, and the needle's eye of racial identification together through a close reading of rappers, black radicals, dub poetry, and novelists from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Branche at once demonstrates the existence of an archive of Afro-modern diasporan, discursive production, and just as importantly, points toward a historically-rooted theoretical framework that would contain its liberatory trajectory.

About Jerome C. Branche (University of Pittsburgh)

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

Table of Contents

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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NLS9780415787949
9780415787949
0415787947
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings by Jerome C. Branche (University of Pittsburgh)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2016-12-14
192
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