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‘Shuttles in the Rocking Loom’: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction, written by Jennifer Terry
Highlights
Jennifer Terry’s multinational and theoretically informed study of African Atlantic fiction ranges from W.E.B
The etymology of diaspora suggests both routes and roots; her astute study explores these writers in terms of imagined and actual movements as well as the national, local, and regional narratives and histories that inform them
She is insistent on the importance of place over placelessness in diasporic fiction, while being wary of the pitfalls of nationalism in the narrower kinds of African Atlantic criticism
Summary
Jennifer Terry ‘Shuttles in the Rocking Loom’: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction. Jennifer Terry’s multinational and theoretically informed study of African Atlantic fiction ranges from W.E.B. Du Bois through Maryse Condé to Caryl Phillips and from C.L.R. James through Octavia Butler to Dionne Brand.
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