Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social
space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly
experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as
spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating,
and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In
their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of
African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex
set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black
urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities
such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global
South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out
of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current
globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical
tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of
globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko,
Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika
Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the
television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration
Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities
are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly
shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting
and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and
community, or create new connections.
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