Decolonizing diasporas : radical mappings of Afro-Atlantic literature / Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 267 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0810142449
- 9780810142442
- Postcolonialism in literature
- African diaspora in literature
- Decolonization in literature
- Equatorial Guinean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
- Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
- Puerto Rican literature -- History and criticism
- Dominican literature -- History and criticism
- Cuban literature -- History and criticism
- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
- Africains -- Pays étrangers, dans la littérature
- Décolonisation dans la littérature
- Littérature équato-guinéenne (espagnole) -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature antillaise (espagnole) -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature portoricaine -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature dominicaine -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature cubaine -- Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- African diaspora in literature
- Caribbean literature (Spanish)
- Cuban literature
- Decolonization in literature
- Dominican literature
- Equatorial Guinean literature (Spanish)
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Puerto Rican literature
- Hispanophone diasporas
- PQ7361 .F54 2020eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Relations -- Intimacies -- Witnessing -- Destierro -- Reparations -- Apocalypso -- Coda: Sea.
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"Figueroa-Vásquez analyzes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, revealing the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another"-- Provided by publisher.
"Decolonizing Diasporas proposes a new way to read the literary and cultural productions of the Afro-Atlantic. Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking Sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Figueroa-̀Vsquez argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists offer ways of imagining new worldviews which dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. Utilizing women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Figueroa-̀Vsquez analyzes artists from the peripheries of their respective diasporas to reveal the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools that they offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression. This study serves as a primer for approaching questions of home, diaspora, belonging, and justice, by centering the cultural productions of peoples of African descent"--OAPEN website, viewed December 8, 2021.
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