TY - BOOK ID - 77937451 TI - Common places : the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics PY - 2011 SN - 9786613366269 1283366266 9401206953 9789401206952 9042034084 9789042034082 PB - Amsterdam : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Poetry KW - Caribbean poetry KW - Cultural pluralism KW - African diaspora in literature. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Miscegenation in literature. KW - Cultural diversity KW - Diversity, Cultural KW - Diversity, Religious KW - Ethnic diversity KW - Pluralism (Social sciences) KW - Pluralism, Cultural KW - Religious diversity KW - Culture KW - Cultural fusion KW - Ethnicity KW - Multiculturalism KW - Caribbean literature KW - Poems KW - Verses (Poetry) KW - Black authors KW - History and criticism. KW - African influences. KW - Philosophy KW - Glissant, Édouard, KW - Walcott, Derek KW - Frankétienne KW - Rankine, Claudia, KW - Franketyèn KW - Étienne, Franck KW - والكوت، ديرك KW - デレク・ウォルコット KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Poetics. KW - Authors, African. KW - African authors KW - African literature KW - Technique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937451 AB - 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. ER -