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The Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies
Editor: Vanessa K. Valdés
Date Of Publication: Mar 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3638-8
Isbn: 1-4438-3638-9
The Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is an exciting collection of essays representative of new voices in this ever-expanding field. Writing in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole, the volume’s contributors look at the fields of art, literature, film, and music. From the Hispanophone, Francophone, and Anglophone Caribbean to the United States and Europe, the scholars here interrogate themes of memory, power, gender, identity, race, and religion. In so doing, they uncover forgotten episodes of history previously lost to hegemonic tellings of the past. Here, readers will find studies on Haitian documentary, Puerto Rican art, Trinidadian calypso, Colombian poetry, the African-American novel, and African photography and collage. The Future Is Now serves as a celebration of the contributions made by peoples of African descent, providing a glimpse at the breadth of cultural offerings to be found throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and Europe.
Vanessa K. Valdés, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The City College of New York of the City University of New York. A graduate of Yale University and Vanderbilt University, her research is centered on portraits of race, gender, and class in literatures of the Americas. She is also the editor of Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys of the African Diaspora (SUNY Press, 2012).
“The merit of The Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is that it takes scholars out of the traditional academic straightjacket, by focusing on more than one discipline, more than one geographic location, and more than one linguistic group. The volume takes a welcome holistic approach to the African diasporic experience.”
– Flore Zéphir, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri; Acting Director, Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora “[The Future is Now] will make a valuable contribution to the dialogue on the current thinking and on the future direction of African Diaspora Studies. Regarding the essays themselves, they are thought-provoking, well-researched, and quite appropriate for demonstrating how one pays ‘homage to one’s ancestors’ . . .” – James J. Davis, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University “Dealing with the African Diaspora in the Americas, the essays here are significant in that they expand this important subject beyond its all too common focus on the culture of the United States alone and discuss it in the context of Latin America as well. In an age of unprecedented electronic communication between the peoples of the Americas, the implementation of this kind of hemispheric perspective is both refreshing and productive.” – Earl E. Fitz, PhD, Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University
Price Uk Gbp: 39.99
Price Us Usd: 59.99
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