Description
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora
Transatlantic Musings
Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora Series
Author: Branche Jerome C.
Language: EnglishKeywords
equatorial; guinea; middle; passage; bois; west; indian; double; consciousness; manuel; Young Men; PCN; Pope Paul III; Plaster Of Paris; People’s Progressive Party; Garcilaso De La Vega; Slave Ship Sailors; Dead Men; Spanish Language; Black People’s Day; Transatlantic Musings; Spanish Guinea; Race Today Collective; Bass Culture; Cape Coast Castle; Equatorial Guinea; Mother Poem; Reggae Sounds; Slave Ship Zong; Rastafarian Language; Rap Item; Black West Indian; Creole Mother; Double Consciousness; Dread Talk
Publication date: 12-2014
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 12-2016
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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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 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.
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.
Jerome C. Branche is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.