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...
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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 attain
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Out of the Abyss: Commonplaces of Repetition and Redemption; 1 Glissant's Common Places; 2 Walcott's Allegory of History; 3 A Backward Faith in Walcott's "The Schooner Flight"; 4 Claudia Rankine: Jane Eyre's Blues at The End of the Alphabet; Dear Diary: A Manifesto - Werewere Liking's Elle sera de jaspe et de corail; 6 Ritualizing Utopia in Elle sera de jaspe et de corail; 7 Masks of Affliction in Frankétienne's Haiti; 8 Frankétienne's Logorrhea: An Excess of Seeming
Afterword "The Horizon Devours My Voice": Notes on TranslationBibliography; Index;
