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While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the 'commonplace' to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attainable, differentially common future. Putting poets Frankétienne (Haiti), Werewere Liking (Côte d'Ivoire), Derek Walcott (St Lucia), and Claudia Rankine (Jamaica) in dialogue with Romantic poets and theorists, as well as with the more recent thinkers Édouard Glissant, Walter Benjamin, and Emmanuel Levinas, Oakley shows how African Atlantic poets formally revive Romantic forms, ranging from the social utopian manifesto to the poète maudit, in their pursuit of a redemptive allegory of African Atlantic experiences. Common Places addresses issues in African and Caribbean literary studies, Romanticism, poetics, rhetorical theory, comparative literature, and translation theory, and further, models a postcolonial critique in the aesthetic-ethical and 'new aestheticist' vein.

Literature --- Poetry --- Caribbean poetry --- Cultural pluralism --- African diaspora in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African influences. --- Glissant, Édouard, --- Walcott, Derek --- Frankétienne --- Rankine, Claudia, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African diaspora in literature --- Miscegenation in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Caribbean literature --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- African influences --- History and criticism --- Black authors&delete& --- Philosophy --- والكوت، ديرك --- デレク・ウォルコット --- Franketyèn --- Étienne, Franck --- Glissant, Édouard