African-Caribbean Girls Interrogating Diaspora/Submit-Diaspora (Routledge 2022), edited by Suzanne Scafe and Leith Dunn, might be launched on-line on Tuesday, Might 17, 2022, at 7:00pm (GMT), 1:00pm (EST). Be part of by the Eventbrite hyperlink under to rejoice the publication of this assortment of essays and artistic interventions that explores problems with migration, diaspora, (submit) diaspora, settlement, and group. [Also see previous post African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora-Post-Diaspora.]
This occasion, chaired by Joan Anim-Addo (Centre for Caribbean and Diasporic Research, Goldsmiths, College of London) contains poetry readings by Alecia McKenzie and Velma Pollard, whose work is included within the assortment, and a roundtable dialogue with contributors Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, Beverley Bryan, Patricia Noxolo, and Aisha Spencer.
Ebook Description: This anthology originated as papers introduced at a convention held in London, July 2018, entitled “Caribbean Girls (Submit) Diaspora: African-Caribbean Interconnections”.
The chapters give attention to points of girls’s company and on the potential for transformation produced by the expertise of migration and the networks and communities original by African-Caribbean ladies in diasporic areas. They cowl a spread of disciplines together with the research of visible artwork, auto-ethnographic evaluation, along with socio-cultural and literary analyses. The work included on this anthology inserts, as central to its focus, concerns of gender and particularly the experiences of girls in processes of migration, group formation and resistance. In its give attention to ideas of diaspora and post-diaspora, the e-book investigates the potential of those theoretical phrases to handle the complexity of the diasporic expertise. Ideas of post-diaspora have emerged in current scholarship as a response to the challenges to conventional understandings of diaspora raised by the rise and pace of globalisation, and by the rise of transnationalism, each as a spotlight of educational research and as an on a regular basis expertise. Submit-diaspora, like transnationalism, emphasises the fluidity of the migration course of: post-diasporic identities emerge from the shifting formations of intra- and worldwide communities.
The chapters on this e-book have been initially revealed as a particular situation of the journal African and Black Diaspora.
For the Desk of Contents, see https://www.routledge.com/African-Caribbean-Girls-Interrogating-DiasporaPost-Diaspora/Scafe-Dunn/p/e-book/9780367726133
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