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.
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 shows a dynamic model of Black identity formation and belonging, the result of 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 right to the city and the interaction with Indigenous calls for decolonisation of their ancestral lands. The analysis of Compton’s work allows for deconstructing the binaries African/Canadian, Indigenous/settler, Hogan’s Alley/Vancouver and exposes the co-constitutive character of these elements.
Introduction;
1. Writing against Elision: The Role of Hogans 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 Tricksters 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
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.
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