...Daylanne K. English © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press GOYAL YOGITA , Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 288 , cloth, $85.00 . Diaspora and the Politics of Genre yogita goyal, Romance...

... the well-theorized connection between the archive and the nation-state, diaspora novels require a transnational reading practice that encompasses multiple national archives. This critical practice opens the archive and exposes the nation-state's exclusionary investments in it. Diaspora literature thus...

...Grace A. Musila Abstract While the Black Lives Matter movement is widely recognized and supported in Africa, its framing prioritizes experiences of anti‐Blackness in the United States and the Black diaspora. This is partly owing to the movement's genesis as a direct response to domestic forms...

...CYNTHIA TOLENTINO WENDY W. WALTERS, At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2005), pp. 224, cloth, $60.00, paper, $20.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Writing Home WENDY I ~VALERS,At Home in Diasporn: Black...

... Black Lives Matter African literature coloniality diaspora race On June 2, 2020, a little more than a week after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a group of more than one hundred African writers published a statement titled “African Authors Sans Frontieres in Solidarity...

... in The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Studies, Modernism/Modernity, and Diaspora. WENDY WALTERS is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. She is completing a manuscript entitled "Black International Writing: At Home in Diaspora" and will be a non-resident...

... in these fictions, but this “new work often conveys a sense of entitlement to American- ness guaranteed them by the very heterogeneity of the crowds that greeted them at the U.S. airport terminal” (20), as America itself becomes redefined as one globalized site of diasporas and historic migrations of peoples...

... homecoming for the continent's diaspora. It also concretized the mode of indirection that would permanently link the three points of the triangle. This policy of indirection would (and does) serve the racism of France; racial slavery was prohibited in France, and the French made much of the fact...

... diaspora, it will first 2 This is not to say that “real Africa” did not offer some sense of hope. Gillman, for instance, use- fully shows how the resurgence of interest in “Ethiopianism” among US blacks was defined in many ways by Ethiopia’s victory over Italy in 1896. But Ethiopia’s...

... identity by performing in whiteface, Duvall’s first chapter puts a curious spin on the concept of diaspora. Duvall provocatively suggests that the dispersion of race members from their “traditional” or “proper” homeland is much more than a sociological or even a literary phenomenon: it is also a deep...

... of the “unbending circle” or “reversible condition” of the diaspora to contemporary novels of slavery, the argument is substantially denser. Although subsequent chapters of the book delineate how gender shapes the teleology of this myth, Greene at times risks reproducing the very stereotypes he is intent...

..., legal, economic, and cultural processes of contemporary Africa. The reality of today's Africa distracts these tourists from enjoying Africa as a fantastical site of past belonging and present redemption. What Brent Edwards calls “the practice of diaspora” disappears from view. Although Tillet makes...

... in Eighteenth-Century British Writing is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. INDntA KARAMCWETI is an Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University. She writes and teaches on postcolonial literature and theory, US ethnic literatures, and literature of the South Asian diaspora. RYAN S. TPUhtM...

... Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art and has current research interests in black women's writing in Africa and the diaspora as well as women in the modem civil rights movement. RICHARD mais Book Review Editor of Novel and Professor Emeritus at Wheaton College...

... . Lalami Laila . The Moor’s Account . New York : Vintage Books , 2014 . Lee Yoon Sun . “ The Postcolonial Novel and Diaspora .” The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel . Ed. Quayson Ato . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2016 . 133 – 51 . Lionnet Françoise...

... of vulnerability across the Black diaspora. The novel's title refers to the overwhelming sense of fear and anxiety that follows the narrator everywhere. She doesn't quite understand the source of her anxiety—intrusive thoughts that make her heart race and keep her awake at night—but she suspects they primarily...

... York: Pocket, 1990 . ———. Life Out of Context . New York: Nation, 2006 . ———. Little Scarlet . New York: Little, Brown, 2004 . Wright , Michelle M. Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora . Durham: Duke UP, 2004 . © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009...

... production, so that the loss that marked the earlier generation of postcolonial writing is no longer the dominant sensibility. And fittingly, across Indian literature published since around 2000, there has been a defetishization of diaspora and emigration to Europe and the United States—once thematic...

... ideology mobilized the African diaspora in the first place—and why the black modernist insistence on complex subjectivity and consciousness, or the novelistic theory of race, appears in retrospect like a Pyrrhic victory. In the archive of twentieth-century African American and African diaspora...

... is associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and author of At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (2005). william b. warner is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Licensing...