The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

by Jerome Branche

This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or "location." Branche's study connects London's multimillion-dollar riots of 2011, and its antecedents associated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138800163
• ISBN13: 9781138800168
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"