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Book SynopsisMapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas,
Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity.
Trade Review“Diaspora studies will never be the same again: Figueroa-VÁsquez’s book turns our attention to ties between the Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea and the Caribbean, and its insights will reverberate across Latinx, Black, American and African studies. Reading work that circulates and resonates in multiple ways across the Atlantic, this is a book that brings together decolonial, critical race, and multilingual approaches to propose a wholly new cartography for the Black Atlantic, bringing timely new attention on the Hispanophone world.” —Tsitsi Jaji, author of
Mother Tongues: Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2019)
“Decolonizing Diasporas is a tour-de-force: it realigns how we think of Latinx literary studies so that the field includes the literature of Equatorial Guinea, thereby necessarily confronting the anti-blackness and, more specifically, anti-Africanness, that has historically been foundational to our discipline. Yomaira C. Figueroa-VÁsquez provides for us a prototype by which to question, interrogate, reconsider, and reconfigure Afro-Atlantic Hispanophone subjectivity; everyone who studies the African continent and its diasporas should read this book.” —Vanessa K. ValdÉs, author of
Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso SchomburgTable of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Language and Translation
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction: Relations
- Chapter 1: Intimacies
- Chapter 2: Witnessing
- Chapter 3: Destierro
- Chapter 4: Reparations
- Chapter 5: Apocalypso
- Coda: Sea
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
