Reading Wayde Compton

Geohistorical (Re)Constructions of Black Vancouver
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-91107-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the literary oeuvre of Wayde Compton, examining the interplay between modes of literary production, urban commemoration, the formation of Black racial identity on the margins of the diaspora, and coalitions of solidarity with other communities in Vancouver.

Stemming from an interdisciplinary perspective that blends Spatial Literary Studies, Hip hop epistemology, and the transmodern paradigm, this book presents a dynamic model of Black identity formation and belonging, resulting from the remix of Afro-diasporic and transcultural elements and the political commemoration of local Black spaces in an often-understudied node of the Black diaspora. This book also explores Compton’s contribution to recent academic debates on the interaction between the commemoration of Black spaces and the right to the city, as well as the engagement with Indigenous calls for the decolonisation of their ancestral lands. The analysis of Compton’s work allows for the deconstruction of the binaries African/Canadian, Indigenous/settler, Hogan’s Alley/Vancouver and exposes the co-constitutive character of these elements.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pérez-García, Fernando

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Writing against Elision: The Role of Hogan’s Alley and Heritage Circulations in the Re-rooting of Black Vancouver; 2. Hip hop Aesthetics and Remixing Genealogies: Decentring the Western Universality from the Margins; 3. The Trickster’s Disruptive Liminality: Remixing Blackness in the Diasporic Crossroads; 4. Otherwise Vancouver in “The Lost Island”: From a Dialectic of Conquest to Transmodern Coalitions of Solidarity; 5. Multiculturalism-from-below in The Outer Harbour. Towards a Transmodern Cosmopolitanism; Conclusions; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando Pérez-García is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oviedo, Spain, and a member of the consolidated research group Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories, and the University Institute in Gender and Diversity. His research focuses on the intersection of race, space and gender in contemporary Black Canadian literature from the perspective of the transmodern paradigm, Black (Diaspora) Studies and Spatial Literary Studies.