Reading Wayde Compton : Geohistorical (Re)Constructions of Black Vancouver (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Pérez-García, Fernando

Routledge（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032911076
• DDC分類 810.9971

Full Description

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the literary oeuvre of Wayde Compton, examining the interplay between modes of literary production, urban commemoration, the formation of Black racial identity on the margins of the diaspora, and coalitions of solidarity with other communities in Vancouver.

Stemming from an interdisciplinary perspective that blends Spatial Literary Studies, Hip hop epistemology, and the transmodern paradigm, this book presents a dynamic model of Black identity formation and belonging, resulting from the remix of Afro-diasporic and transcultural elements and the political commemoration of local Black spaces in an often-understudied node of the Black diaspora. This book also explores Compton's contribution to recent academic debates on the interaction between the commemoration of Black spaces and the right to the city, as well as the engagement with Indigenous calls for the decolonisation of their ancestral lands. The analysis of Compton's work allows for the deconstruction of the binaries African/Canadian, Indigenous/settler, Hogan's Alley/Vancouver and exposes the co-constitutive character of these elements.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Writing against Elision: The Role of Hogan's Alley and Heritage Circulations in the Re-rooting of Black Vancouver; 2. Hip hop Aesthetics and Remixing Genealogies: Decentring the Western Universality from the Margins; 3. The Trickster's Disruptive Liminality: Remixing Blackness in the Diasporic Crossroads; 4. Otherwise Vancouver in "The Lost Island": From a Dialectic of Conquest to Transmodern Coalitions of Solidarity; 5. Multiculturalism-from-below in The Outer Harbour. Towards a Transmodern Cosmopolitanism; Conclusions; Index