Cultural mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Englert, Birgit (Editor), Englert, Birgit, editor (editor), Gföllner, Barbara, editor, Thomsen, Sigrid, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, New York : Taylor & Francis 2021
[2021]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720297706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.