Cultural mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean /

Cultural mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean / / edited by Birgit Englert, Barbara Gföllner and Sigrid Thomsen.

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This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world. Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories...

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Superior document:Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
TeilnehmendeR:
Englert, Birgit,
Gföllner, Barbara,
Thomsen, Sigrid,
Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (227 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword: forging a new approach to African-Caribbean mobilities
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Cultural mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean: introduction
  • 2 A mobile scholar across the Atlantic: the Guyanese historian-activist Walter Rodney (1942-1980) as an intellectual nexus between the Caribbean and Africa
  • 3 "REPATRIATION: YES! MIGRATION: NO!": Back-to-Africa in Rastafarian thought and practice
  • 4 Being Shashamane Sew: second-generation Caribbean Rastafari in multicultural Ethiopia
  • 5 "I'm hungry for connection": artistic collectivity and ceremonial encounters in African-Caribbean relations
  • 6 The routes of soundpoems: nation language in Central America
  • 7 Moving spirits, shifting bodies: connecting Africa and the Caribbean in literature
  • 8 Zombie travels: Middle Passage journeys and clandestine migrant mobilities in contemporary Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction
  • 9 "Don't get too comfortable": regimes of motility in Shailja Patel's Migritude
  • 10 Homegoing: a personal reflection on shared experiences within Yoruba and Jamaican heritage
  • Index.

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