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This book of new essays investigates the category of the
post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse, and state of
mind. In an international forum of both literary critics and
writers, these essays look at contemporary writing in English
throughout the world in an attempt to revision the current critical
practice of post-colonial studies. Structured as a dialogue between
different views, Critics and Writers Speak will add to the
self-reflexivity among post-colonial critics, extending the debate
and stimulating dialogue about the future of post-colonial studies.
The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of
the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging
African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity
of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate
new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully
adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the
margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora
becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as
alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of
the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the
diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to
self-realization and empowerment.
Diasporic writing simultaneously asserts a sense of belonging and
expresses a sense of being 'ethnic' in a society of immigration.
The essays in this volume explore how contemporary diasporic
writers in English use their works to mediate this dissonance and
seek to work through the ethical, political, and personal
affiliations of diasporic identities and subjectivities. The essays
call for a remapping of post-colonial literatures and a
reevaluation of the Anglophone literary canon by including
post-colonial diasporic literary discourses. Demonstrating that an
intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must
in our post-colonial world, this volume is a valuable contribution
to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and
identities.
This book of new essays investigates the category of the
post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse, and state of
mind. In an international forum of both literary critics and
writers, these essays look at contemporary writing in English
throughout the world in an attempt to revision the current critical
practice of post-colonial studies. Structured as a dialogue between
different views, Critics and Writers Speak will add to the
self-reflexivity among post-colonial critics, extending the debate
and stimulating dialogue about the future of post-colonial studies.
The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of
the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging
African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity
of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate
new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully
adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the
margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora
becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as
alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of
the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the
diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to
self-realization and empowerment.
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