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Diasporic Identities Within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts

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Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts explores the complexities underlying the identity formation of peoples of African ancestry in the Spanish-speaking world and of expatriate immigrants who inhabit colonized territories in Africa. Although current diaspora studies provide provocative perspectives on migration that have various cultural, national, political and economic implications, any engagement of the subject readily runs into theoretical and practical challenges. At stake here is the question of finding an ideal conceptualization of diaspora. Should the term be limited to migration that is purely voluntary or to a traumatic exile? What about generational differences that, invariably, impact the imagining of diaspora? How does diaspora relate to creolization, hybridity and transculturation? This volume does not argue for what constitutes a proper diaspora, but rather re-contextualizes the concept of diaspora from the point of view of identity formation on the basis of voluntary and non-voluntary migration. The essays gathered together here engage with the unified topic of identity, but radiate a stimulating variety in geographic coverage - examining countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Morocco, Angola, and Spain - and in thematic approach - from religion to a poetics of self-affirmation to issues of political conflict, subalternity and migration.

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ISBN: 9781443875592
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Author: Yaw B AgawuKakraba, F Komla Aggor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 114 pages
Genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Literature: history and criticism
Literary studies: postcolonial literature