The African diaspora in the verses of Ntozake Shange

Authors

  • Stelamaris Coser UFES

Keywords:

poem and performance, african diaspora, inter-american connections, contemporary U.S. literature, race and gender

Abstract

By associating the concepts of travel and diaspora, this essay examines the poems written and produced by Ntozake Shange, contemporary black writer from the United States. Her performances combine text, video, dance and music to affirm her Afracentric spirit and mix the personal and the political, the lyric and the epic, in a work that brings together desire and the body with dreams of equality and denunciations of violence. The diasporic conscience of the space, literature, history and sociopolitical conjuncture of Latin America and the Caribbean, besides the sympathy shown for Brazil, contributes to underline and promote the interconnected cultures of the Americas.

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Author Biography

Stelamaris Coser, UFES

Doutora em Estudos Americanos pela University of Minnesota. Professora aposentada da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo atuante no Mestrado em Estudos Literários (UFES) e grupos de pesquisa. Autora de Bridging the Americas: the literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones (Temple University Press, 1995) e de diversos artigos abordando a literatura feminina contemporânea dos Estados Unidos/ Caribe, relações literárias interamericanas e questões de identidade, raça e gênero.

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Published

2005-12-30

How to Cite

Coser, S. (2005). The African diaspora in the verses of Ntozake Shange. Gragoatá, 10(19). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33264

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 19 (2005): África, new pathways

Section

Literature Articles

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