This dissertation provides a study of the anticipatory signs of the emerging postcolonial consciousness in three mid-century novels of the African Diaspora: Camara Layes The Dark Child, Margaret Walkers Jubilee, and Orlando Pattersons Die the Long Day. Inspired by Geneviève Fabre and Robert OMeally who have highlighted how African-American cultural producers revise history through lieux de mémoires, this analysis argues that these three transnational writers- respectively from West Africa, the United States and Jamaica - reclaim in their "willfully" constructed sites their past that had...