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Book SynopsisNadia Ellis theorizes the experience of belonging to the African diaspora as living within the space between the land and the soul. She uses a utopian concept of queerness and analyses of African American and Caribbean writers, musicians, and artists to show how diaspora is a mode of feeling and belonging.
Trade Review"
Territories of the Soul offers a powerful reconceptualization of the African diaspora. . . . Ellis presents an important new way of seeing and writing diaspora, one that challenges queer theory and diaspora studies to explore the structural similarities of black diaspora and queer identity." -- Leah Rosenberg * African American Review *
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Territories of the Soul provides a compelling and interrogative look into black life and black culture and the idea of transcendence through the concept of the imagination and land spatiality in a queered diaspora." -- Palimpsest Editorial Collective * Palimpsest *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Queer Elsewhere of Black Diaspora 1
1. The Attachments of C. L. R. James 18
2. The Fraternal Agonies of Baldwin and Lamming 62
3. Andrew Salkey and the Queer Diasporic 95
4. Burning Spear and Nathaniel Mackey at Large 147
Epilogue. Dancehall's Urban Possessions 177
Notes 192
Bibliography 221
Index 233
