Reading Wayde Compton : geohistorical (re)constructions of Black Vancouver / Fernando Pérez-García.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez-García, Fernando, 1988- Author.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compton, Wayde, 1972---Criticism and interpretation.

Canadian literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Authors, Black--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Black people--British Columbia--Vancouver--Social conditions.

British Columbia--Vancouver.

Physical Description:

184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

"This book is a comprehensive analysis of the literary oeuvre of Wayde Compton, examining the interplay between modes of literary production, urban commemoration, the formation of Black racial identity on the margins of the diaspora, and coalitions of solidarity with other communities in Vancouver. Stemming from an interdisciplinary perspective that blends Spatial Literary Studies, Hip hop epistemology and the transmodern paradigm, this book shows a dynamic model of Black identity formation and belonging, the result of the remix of Afro-diasporic and transcultural elements, and the political commemoration of local Black spaces in an often-understudied node of the Black diaspora. This book also explores Compton's contribution to recent academic debates on the interaction between the commemoration of Black spaces and right to the city and the interaction with Indigenous calls for decolonisation of their ancestral lands. The analysis of Compton's work allows for deconstructing the binaries African/Canadian, Indigenous/settler, Hogan's Alley/Vancouver and exposes the co-constitutive character of these elements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Writing against Elision : the role of Hogan's Alley and heritage circulations in the re-rooting of Black Vancouver

Hip hop aesthetics and remixing genealogies : decentring the western universality from the margins

The trickster's disruptive liminality : remixing Blackness in the diasporic crossroads

Otherwise Vancouver in "The lost island" : from a dialectic of conquest to transmodern coalitions of solidarity

Multiculturalism-from-below in The outer harbour. Towards a transmodern cosmopolitanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Pérez-García, Fernando, 1988- Reading Wayde Compton

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781032911076

1032911077

9781032911090

1032911093

OCLC:

1505748316

Publisher Number:

CIPO000238378