The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

by Jerome C. Branche

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138800168
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/2014
Series:	Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora , #7
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.