Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9780367708313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Birgit Englert; Barbara Gföllner; Sigrid Thomsen

Opis

This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of mobility studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.

Spis treści

Foreword: Forging a New Approach to African-Caribbean Mobilities  1. Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean: Introduction  2. A Mobile Scholar Across the Atlantic: The Guyanese Historian-Activist Walter Rodney (1942–1980) as an Intellectual Nexus Between the Caribbean and Africa  3. "REPATRIATION: YES! MIGRATION: NO!" Back-to-Africa in Rastafarian Thought and Practice  4. Being Shashamane Sew: Second-Generation Caribbean Rastafari in Multicultural Ethiopia  5. "I’m Hungry for Connection": Artistic Collectivity and Ceremonial Encounters in African-Caribbean Relations  6. The Routes of Soundpoems: Nation Language in Central America  7. Moving Spirits, Shifting Bodies: Connecting Africa and the Caribbean in Literature  8. Zombie Travels: Middle Passage Journeys and Clandestine Migrant Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone African and Afrodiasporic Fiction  9. "Don’t Get Too Comfortable": Regimes of Motility in Shailja Patel’s Migritude  10. Homegoing: A Personal Reflection on Shared Experiences within Yoruba and Jamaican Heritage