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DIASPORA AFRICAINE --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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phobie de la sorcellerie --- la diaspora africaine en Europe et en Amérique du Nord --- les milieux de la diaspora africaine en Belgique et au Canada --- sorcelleriephobie

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In the humanities, the term 'diaspora' recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars addresses these issues and helps to ground the ongoing debate about the African diaspora in a more solid theoretical framework. Part I is dedicated to a general discussion of the concept of African diaspora, its origins and historical development. Part II examines the complex cultural dimensions of African diasporas in relation to significant sites and figures, including the modes and modalities of creative expression from the perspective of both artists/writers and their audiences; finally, Part III focusses on the resources (collections and archives) and iconographies that are available today. As most authors argue, the African diaspora should not be seen merely as a historical phenomenon, but also as an idea or ideology and an object of representation. By exploring this new ground, the essays assembled here provide important new insights for scholars in American and African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and African Studies. The collection is rounded off by an annotated listing of black autobiographies.

Diaspora africaine --- African diaspora --- Blacks in literature --- Literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism

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The field of African literary and cultural studies is undergoing significant transformations, in tandem with changes in related academic disciplines and throughout the world at large. The theme of this volume, “African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries,” at once encourages further exploration of issues that have long been central in scholarship on literature and orature while at the same time forging new ways of conceiving the relationship between African cultures of the past and the present, and their ongoing reconfiguration in a range of diasporic communities that are continually reinventing themselves. Ours is an age of unprecedented migration not only of labor and commodities but also of peoples—peoples whose innovative cultural activities mediate dislocations, at best making them not only bearable but productive and sometimes even enjoyable. Scholarship draws on recent developments in cultural studies in order to analyze the potent social forces that are harnessed and given unique expression in literature and popular culture. As Africans and people of African descent relocate—whether literally or figuratively, voluntarily or by force—they generate new modes of expression that underscore the tangle of contradictions in their national and cultural identities, while also proposing new forms of identification that mesh with their new situation. Taken together, these essays suggest many new lines of inquiry to be pursued in future work, which will have to address the inequalities perpetuated or spawned by economic globalization, and the ways in which various modes of cultural expression do or do not rise to the task of challenging those inequalities.

DIASPORA AFRICAINE --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE --- Littérature américaine --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE = CARIBBEAN LITERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique