Description
Book SynopsisUnites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as ‘African American’, ‘black Canadian’, ‘black British’, or ‘postcolonial African Caribbean’, this book takes an integrative approach, arguing that fiction creates a sense of a wider African diasporic community in the Western world.
Trade Review“A compelling and generative source for scholars and students of myriad fields.”—Studies in the Novel
""Makes a compelling case for a rethinking of narrative moments including slavery, the Middle Passage, and colonization that have defined the fiction produced in a transatlantic geography. Provokes a reassessment of notions of Africa as an ur-home and figurations of nation-state. A must-read.""--Maxine Lavon Montgomery, author of
The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance""Shows how literary texts perform a cultural mediation of diasporic memory.""--Wendy W. Walters, author of
Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading between Literature and History""Moves productively between the civil-rights generation of African American novelists, to the cultural-nationalist generation of Caribbean writers from the decolonization era, to contemporary British, Canadian, and American writers.""--Olakunle George, author of
Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters
