Voicing Memory and History: Diaspora Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction by New World African Writers

Authors

  • Roland Walter UFPE

Keywords:

New World African diaspora fiction, memory, history, identity

Abstract

Based on the hypothesis that the (re)creation of epistemic home places in African diaspora fiction is achieved through an apprapriation of historical, mental, bodily, and discursive space - the appropriation of signs, by means of which a closed, fixed and distorted history, identity, and imagination is opened up and set in motion once more - this essay traces discursive strategies of resistance to probe different meanings the concept of home has taken on in selected novels by New World African writers from Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil. In the process, it focuses on the (re)creation of home out of errantry, the rewriting of history through memory, by prablematizing memory as a site of identity (re)construction, ethical struggle over the access to signification, and epistemic (re)vision.

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Original in English

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Author Biography

Roland Walter, UFPE

Doutor em Letras, é professor da UFPE. Suas últimas publicações são: 1. "Notes on Borders and Transculturation in the 'Damp and Hungry Interstices' of the Americas". In: D'HAEB, T., KADIR, D., ZAMORRA, L.P. (org). How far is America from here? Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2005. 2. "Littérature pan-américaine: la formation de l'identité dans les contexts transantionaux et transculturels". In: COTÉ, J-F, TREMBLAY, E. (org) Le nouveau récit des frontières dans les Amériques. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005. 3. "A política de localização em Maryse Conde, Dionne Brand e Edwidge Danticat". In: MOREIRA, N.M.B., SCHNEIDER, L. (org). Mulheres no mundo: etnia, marginalidade e diáspora. João Pessoa: Idéia/Ed. UFPB, 2005

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Published

2005-12-30

How to Cite

Walter, R. (2005). Voicing Memory and History: Diaspora Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction by New World African Writers. Gragoatá, 10(19). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33265

Issue

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

Section

Literature Articles

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