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Making Black History - Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism (Hardcover)
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Making Black History - Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism (Hardcover)
Series: Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
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This study proposes that - rather than trying to discern the
normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept,
politics, ethics or aesthetics - Afropolitanism may be best
approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a
certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the
shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as
real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet
predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As
such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the
African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in
the moment of Afropolitanism. Discursively, this moment is very
much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US
and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race,
class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting
Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial
solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as
ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first
decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate
between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment. Please
read our interview with Dominique Haensell here:
https://blog.degruyter.com/de-gruyters-10th-open-access-book-anniversary-dominique-haensell-and-her-winning-title-making-black-history/
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