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Donnell, Alison 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8722-6974
(2005)
What it means to stay: reterritorialising the Black Atlantic in Erna Brodber's writing of the local.
Third World Quarterly, 26 (3).
pp. 479-486.
ISSN 0143-6597
Abstract
The emphasis on migratory subjectivities within postcolonial studies has come from many directions - Bhabha, Gilroy, Appadurai, Boyce Davies - and their convergence has created a critical practice in which diaspora studies takes centre stage. More specifically the way in which the Caribbean person is given emblematic status as the metropolitan migrant is made clear in James Clifford's declaration that 'We are all Caribbeans now…in our urban archipelagos'. This paper examines the serious impact on the critical reception of Caribbean writings that has been made as a result of the fact that metropolitan diasporas are now the privileged places in which to be properly 'postcolonial'. It is my aim to show how Erna Brodber's culturally specific studies have enormous value in the face of the more general and flattened enunciations of diaspora and creolisation which are being circulated at a theoretical level. I shall look at two fairly recent pieces of writing by Brodber: a pamphlet entitled 'The people of my Jamaican village (1817-1948)' and an essay entitled 'Where are all the others?' in the book Caribbean Creolisation
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published in issue: Connecting Cultures |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2017 05:04 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 02:55 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64188 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01436590500033818 |
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