Pub Date : 2020-06-04DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1766132
N. E. Khalema
ABSTRACT Safran’s theorization of diaspora focused on a ‘myth of return', a conscious desire to return from banishment to a homeland or an identity. This paper extends Safran’s conceptualization of identity formation to highlight how four Afro-Brazilian community health workers (CHW) talk, imagine, celebrate, and reaffirm their African identity. The paper argues that by affirming blackness, CHW tell us something about the context of racialization and identity politics in Brazil. Relegated to the bottom of the stratification system and dominated by Euro-hegemonic structures, CHW negotiate their identities, leading to different forms of resistance. The paper shares their narratives of recovering an Afro-centric personhood that affirms their history, humanity, and lived experiences. This affirmation becomes a state of being and a process of becoming, a kind of voyage that encompasses the possibility of never leaving; a navigation of multiple belongings and networks of affiliation, particularly in modern contexts of post-racial theorizing.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1751411
Patricia Noxolo
ABSTRACT Drawing on the sensory, self-shifting approach of Lorna Goodison’s 1986 poem ‘I am becoming my mother’, and on quantum theory for brief insights into entanglement, this article gazes into the still visualities of family photographs of my own Birmingham childhood (my mother died that same year) to push towards a more entangled conception of (post)diaspora. I use this highly personal entanglement to take issue with three troublingly disentangled ways in which postdiaspora has been imagined in recent academic literature: as the culmination of a teleological movement from migrant to diaspora to post-diaspora; as the slowly weakening pull of diasporic responsibilities and remittances; and as a means to archaise and de-link from ties to a forgetful and irresponsible diaspora. Ultimately, the article pushes towards a more deeply materially and personally entangled version of (post)diaspora.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1740471
S. Scafe, L. Dunn
From the post-emancipation period to the present-day, migration from and frequently return to the Caribbean has been a defining feature of the region and has shaped its economic and social structur...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1732030
Alecia McKenzie
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1750176
Amber Lascelles
ABSTRACT Migrating to the US is transformative in the short stories in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! and Chimamanda Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck. The currents of Blackness, gender and class alter their characters' experiences of the world, shaped by the global flows of migration taking place under neoliberal capitalism. This essay explores the nuanced and conflicting ways diaspora and post-diaspora spaces can facilitate Black feminist resistance in Danticat's ‘Caroline's Wedding' and Adichie's ‘Imitation'. I offer a Black feminist analysis, paying attention to the literary body as the site where tensions are dramatised. My reading of Danticat's and Adichie’s short stories leads to a progressive reconsideration of diaspora.
edwiddge Danticat的短篇小说《克里克?Krak !以及Chimamanda Adichie的《The Thing Around Your Neck》。黑人、性别和阶级的潮流改变了他们的角色对世界的体验，这些体验是由新自由主义资本主义下的全球移民流动所塑造的。本文探讨了散居和后散居空间在丹蒂卡特的《卡罗琳的婚礼》和阿迪奇的《模仿》中促进黑人女权主义抵抗的微妙和相互矛盾的方式。我提供了一种黑人女权主义分析，关注文学主体，将其作为紧张局势戏剧化的场所。我对但丁卡和阿迪契的短篇小说的阅读使我对散居的问题有了一个渐进的反思。
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2019.1698209
Marsha Pearce
ABSTRACT Given contexts of globalization and transnationalism, and calls within the academe for new vocabularies to describe contemporary migrations and encounters, this article looks to the visual arts in its proposal of a lexicon for articulating mobilities and self-fashioning. In its consideration of a post-diaspora theory, the article lays a foundation for its argument by putting the ideas of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in dialog with the work of Trinidadian-born, US-based contemporary artist Nicole Awai, specifically the artworks in which she attends to the notion of a black ooze. Rather than dislocation and disjuncture, the article posits the idea of the viscous or the ooze as a symbol of diverse affiliations and nuanced mobilities. Furthermore, the ooze is advanced as a means of understanding post-diaspora in gendered terms. The article asks: what forms of expression are available to reconfigure identities as post-diasporic? It argues that Nicole Awai’s work is one such expression.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1723859
Jenny E. Mitchell
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1750173
Julia Siccardi
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the different ways in which home is experienced by the female characters of the diaspora in Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000), On Beauty (2006) and NW (2013). In On Beauty, one of the characters declares: ‘There is such a shelter in each other’ (93). This implies that the sense of home may not be tied to a place, but to the intimacy of relationships. In these novels, Zadie Smith portrays women whose feelings of belonging to a place are threatened, due to their geographical displacements or to their complex transcultural identities. Using Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of territorialization and reterritorialization, I’ll explore how concepts of home and diaspora are reconfigured in Smith's novels.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-27DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1753921
M. John
ABSTRACT There has been significant research done on the assimilation patterns of immigrants in the US, particularly immigrants of color. However, since fewer studies have focused on Afro-Caribbean and Cuban immigrants, this research extends the literature beyond its current scope by providing a comparative analysis of Haitian and Cuban immigrants, two immigrant groups in Miami, Florida, that have received very little attention comparatively regarding assimilation. Using data from approximately 100 Haitian and Cuban immigrants in and around Little Haiti and Little Havana, the research demonstrates that though both groups are racially and ethnically diverse, assimilation patterns do not prove to be distinctive. Interestingly, the results of this study will also show that for this sample of immigrants, their experiences are relatively similar economically, politically, and culturally. Further, findings challenge classical, segmented and new assimilation theories because they inadequately provide insight on the new wave of immigrants.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-14DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2020.1750168
G. Beckles-Raymond
ABSTRACT Drawing on bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Carole Boyce-Davies, this paper develops an ethical framework to provide a gendered analysis of relative power inside and outside the home. In doing so, it considers the ways in which our view of home as African-Caribbean women, impacts our understanding of '(post) diaspora' (Dunn, Leith, and Suzanne Scafe. 2019. “African-Caribbean Women: Migration, Diaspora, Post-Diaspora.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 13: 1–16) in the UK. Insofar as home is central to the idea of diaspora, I suggest that home must be conceptualised as an interdependent 'adult's' home rather than a dependent 'child's' home. On this reading, in the context of global power relations, I caution that while offering a useful and necessary point of departure from diaspora, the use of 'post' could be deployed to undermine an unapologetically intersectional black politics. As such, I claim the (Post) Diaspora Network's methodology, rather than the term itself, best demonstrates the liberatory intent and importance of a (post) diaspora subjectivity.
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