Decolonizing Diasporas : Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature / Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Northwestern University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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-Vásquez 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-Vásquez 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 5305

ISBN:

9780810142428

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access