Poetry and the TranslocalBlackening Britain
Poetry and the TranslocalBlackening Britain
This chapter examines how postcolonial and black British poets and calypso singers reimagined metropolitan England in relation to African and Caribbean cultures and histories. It discusses how black British poetry reconceived widely disparate geocultural spaces and histories in relation to one another and suggests that it provided expression and shape to a cross-geographic experience just like other postcolonial, diasporic and migrant poetries. This chapter also argues that the poetry of the African diaspora in Britain is both rooted and routed in particular landscapes, regional and interregional networks.
Keywords: postcolonial poets, black British poets, calypso singers, England, African culture, Caribbean culture, African diaspora, cross-geographic experience, migrant poetries
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