"Anywhere But Here" brings together new scholarship on the
cross-cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent
since the eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul
Gilroy's prominent thesis in "The Black Atlantic: Modernity and
Double-Consciousness" and posits arguments beyond "The Black
Atlantic's" traditional organization and symbolism. Contributions
are arranged into three sections that highlight the motivations and
characteristics connecting a certain set of agents, thinkers, and
intellectuals: the first, Re-ordering Worldviews: Rebellious
Thinkers, Poets, Writers, and Political Architects; the second,
Crafting Connections: Strategic and Ideological Alliances; and the
third, Cultural Mastery in Foreign Spaces: Evolving Visions of Home
and Identity.
These essays expand categories and suggest patterns at play that
have united individuals and communities across the African
diaspora. They highlight the stories of people who, from their
intercultural and often marginalized positions, challenged the
status quo, created strategic (and at times, unexpected)
international alliances, cultivated expertise and cultural fluency
abroad, as well as crafted physical and intellectual spaces for
their self-expression and dignity to thrive.
What, for example, connects the eighteenth-century Igbo author
Olaudah Equiano with 1940s literary figure Richard Wright;
nineteenth-century expatriate anthropologist Antenor Fermin with
1960s Haitian emigres to the Congo; Japanese Pan-Asianists and
Southern Hemisphere Aboriginal activists with Jamaican-born Marcus
Garvey; or Angela Davis with artists of the British Black Arts
Movement, Ingrid Pollard and Zarina Bhimji? They are all part of a
mapping that reaches across and beyond geographical, historical,
and ideological boundaries typically associated with the "Black
Atlantic." They reflect accounts of individuals and communities
equally united in their will to seek out better lives, often, as
the title suggests, "anywhere but here.""
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