Literature in the Postcolony

Oceanic Spaces

Imagining the Middle Passage: A Visual, Literary and Theoretical Mapping of the Black Atlantic (prezi) – Stella Koudouma

As my cultural map, I formulated a Prezi presentation of different theoretical, literary and visual approaches to imagining the Middle Passage. While the representation of the passage in-between is difficult to visualize, we are invited by thinkers, writers and artists to envision the journey from different perspectives. I aimed at focusing on various conceptions, from…

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Performing a speculative geopoetics by mapping Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads – Danny Steur

To offer a cultural map of the Caribbean, the archipelago profoundly characterized by transculturality and historical, political, social and other kinds of entanglements and Creolization, I used The Salt Roads, written by Jamaican-born speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson, as a point of departure to offer a rendition of the ways in which sociopolitical, cultural and…

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