Home is an uneasy placeAfroperipheralism and diasporic sensibilities in Wayde Compton’s “The Instrument”

  1. Pérez García, Fernando 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
Ecos de la Academia: Revista de la Facultad de Educación Ciencia y Tecnología

ISSN: 2550-6889

Year of publication: 2016

Volume: 2

Issue: 4

Pages: 105-115

Type: Article

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Abstract

Since the last century, African American discourse has been hegemonic in Black Cultural Studies, in many cases ignoring the contributions of other Black geographies and the importance of the transnational flows of population in the development of different Black cultures and identities. The case of the porous border between the USA and Canada is paradigmatic. After the nativist and diasporic approaches, which have been the cornerstone in the theorization of the multiple Black Canadas, the study of Afroperipheralism in the literature of Black Vancouver, a community deeply invisibilized by the official national narrative, it can provide a new approach to racial identity formation, more fluid and transnational but still rooted in the local community.

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