Common places : the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics /

Common places : the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics / / Seanna Sumalee Oakley.

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While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the “commonplace” to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace...

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Oakley, Seanna Sumalee.
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm))
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • OUT OF THE ABYSS: COMMONPLACES OF REPETITION AND REDEMPTION
  • GLISSANT’S COMMON PLACES
  • WALCOTT’S ALLEGORY OF HISTORY
  • A BACKWARD FAITH IN WALCOTT’S “THE SCHOONER FLIGHT”
  • CLAUDIA RANKINE: JANE EYRE’S BLUES AT THE END OF THE ALPHABET
  • DEAR DIARY: AMANIFESTO – WEREWERE LIKING’S ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL
  • RITUALIZING UTOPIA IN ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL
  • MASKS OF AFFLICTION IN FRANKÉTIENNE’S HAITI
  • FRANKÉTIENNE’S LOGORRHEA: AN EXCESS OF SEEMING
  • “THE HORIZON DEVOURS MY VOICE”: NOTES ON TRANSLATION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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