| Description |
1 online resource (114 pages) |
| Contents |
Visions from the Margins: Miguel Barnet's Biografia de un cimarrón and Ivor Miller's Voices of the Leopard / Uchenna Vasser -- Negotiating Resistance: Writing Strategies of Indo/Afro-Nicaraguan Women Poets / Tina Escaja -- Identity, Solidarity and Autonomy: African Agency in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, el gran putas / Samuel Mate-Kojo -- Narrative Aesthetics and the Epistemic Violence of History: José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons / Arthur Hughes -- Galdós and Africa: A Spaniard Speaks for the Subaltern / Michael Ugarte -- The Dangerous Liaisons of Spain and Africa: Hybridity and Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Cinema / Bernardo Antonio González |
| Summary |
Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts explores the complexities underlying the identity formation of peoples of African ancestry in the Spanish-speaking world and of expatriate immigrants who inhabit colonized territories in Africa. Although current diaspora studies provide provocative perspectives on migration that have various cultural, national, political and economic implications, any engagement of the subject readily runs into theoretical and practical challenges. At stake here is the question of finding an ideal conceptualization of diaspora. Should the term be limited to migration that is purely voluntary or to a traumatic exile? What about generational differences that, invariably, impact the imagining of diaspora? How does diaspora relate to creolization, hybridity and transculturation? This volume does not argue for what constitutes a proper diaspora, but rather re-contextualizes the concept of diaspora from the point of view of identity formation on the basis of voluntary and non-voluntary migration. The essays gathered together here engage with the unified topic of identity, but radiate a stimulating variety in geographic coverage – examining countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Morocco, Angola, and Spain – and in thematic approach – from religion to a poetics of self-affirmation to issues of political conflict, subalternity and migration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African diaspora.
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Africans -- Spain -- Autonomous communities
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African diaspora -- Social conditions
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Literature & literary studies.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Africans
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African diaspora
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Black people -- Ethnic identity
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Civilization
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National characteristics, African
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Africa
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Caribbean Area
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw B., 1960- editor.
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Aggor, F. Komla (Francis Komla), 1959- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781443883894 |
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1443883891 |
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