Branche, Jerome.

The poetics and politics of diaspora transatlantic musings / [electronic resource] : Jerome C. Branche. - New York : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xiii, 191 p.) : ill. - Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora ; 7 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Malungaje : toward a poetics of diaspora -- Dislocation and re/membering : Ndongo and D'guiar write the middle passage -- Dislocation and double consciousness in Kamau Brathwaite : the poet as guinea-bird -- Speaking truth, speaking power : of "immigrants," immanence, and Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Street 66" -- Exile's half-life, exile's dead end : the conundrum of location in Equatoguinean literature -- Marcando territorio (marking territory) : location as project and process in Colombia.

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African diaspora in literature.
Literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Slavery in literature.


Africa--In literature.