Decolonizing diasporas : radical mappings of Afro-Atlantic literatures

Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez juxtaposes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic diasporic artists, analyzing work by Nelly Rosario, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Donato Ndongo, Junot Díaz, Aracelis Girmay, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ernesto Quiñonez, Christina Olivares, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng, Ibeyi, Daniel José Older, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Figueroa-Vásquez’s study reveals the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression, including public and intimate forms of domination, sexual and structural violence, sociopolitical and racial exclusion, and the haunting remnants of colonial intervention. Figueroa-Vásquez contends that these diasporic literatures reveal violence but also forms of resistance and the radical potential of Afro-futurities. This study centers the cultural productions of peoples of African descent as Afro-diasporic imaginaries that subvert coloniality and offer new ways to approach questions of home, location, belonging, and justice. Winner, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vsquez juxtaposes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic diasporic artists, analyzing work by Nelly Rosario, Juan Toms vila Laurel, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Donato Ndongo, Junot Daz, Aracelis Girmay, Loida Maritza Prez, Ernesto Quionez, Christina Olivares, Joaqun Mbomio Bacheng, Ibeyi, Daniel Jos Older, and Mara Magdalena Campos-Pons. Figueroa-Vsquezs study reveals the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression, including public and intimate forms of domination, sexual and structural violence, sociopolitical and racial exclusion, and the haunting remnants of colonial intervention. Figueroa-Vsquez contends that these diasporic literatures reveal violence but also forms of resistance and the radical potential of Afro-futurities. This study centers the cultural productions of peoples of African descent as Afro-diasporic imaginaries that subvert coloniality and offer new ways to approach questions of home, location, belonging, and justice.

Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African andAfro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporasargues that the works of diasporic writers and artists fromEquatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cubaoffer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics ofcolonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonialtheory as frameworks, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez juxtaposesAfro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic diasporic artists, analyzing work byNelly Rosario, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Trifonia Melibea Obono,Donato Ndongo, Junot Díaz, Aracelis Girmay, Loida Maritza Pérez,Ernesto Quiñonez, Christina Olivares, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng,Ibeyi, Daniel José Older, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons.Figueroa-Vásquez's study reveals the thematic, conceptual, andliberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to oneanother.

Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy,witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remappedin these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression,including public and intimate forms of domination, sexual andstructural violence, sociopolitical and racial exclusion, and thehaunting remnants of colonial intervention. Figueroa-Vásquezcontends that these diasporic literatures reveal violence but alsoforms of resistance and the radical potential ofAfro-futurities.

This study centers the cultural productions of peoples ofAfrican descent as Afro-diasporic imaginaries that subvertcoloniality and offer new ways to approach questions of home,location, belonging, and justice.

"Figueroa-Vásquez analyzes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, revealing the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another"-- Provided by publisher Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Language and Translation Preface Introduction. Relations Chapter 1. Intimacies Chapter 2. Witnessing Chapter 3. Destierro Chapter 4. Reparations Chapter 5. Apocalypso Coda. Sea Notes Bibliography Index