This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African
diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry
in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing
diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of
dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group
affirmation and settlement, or "location." Branche's study connects
London's multimillion-dollar riots of 2011, and its antecedents
associated with the West Indian settler community, to the
discontent and harrowing conditions facing black immigrants to
contemporary Spain as gateway to Fortress Europe. It links the
brutal massacres that target Colombia's dispossessed and displaced
poor - and mainly black - "throwaway" citizens, victims of the drug
trade and neoliberal expansionism, to older Caribbean stories that
tell of the original spurts of capitalist greed, and the colonial
cauldron it created, at the center of which lay the slave trade. In
revisiting the question of what really has awaited Afro-descendants
at the end of the Middle Passage, this volume brings transatlantic
slavery, the making of weak postcolonial states that bleed people,
and the needle's eye of racial identification together through a
close reading of rappers, black radicals, dub poetry, and novelists
from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Branche at once demonstrates
the existence of an archive of Afro-modern diasporan, discursive
production, and just as importantly, points toward a
historically-rooted theoretical framework that would contain its
liberatory trajectory.
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