TY - BOOK AU - Oakley,Seanna Sumalee TI - Common places: the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics T2 - Textxet: studies in comparative literature SN - 9789401206952 AV - PN849.C3 O29 2011 U1 - 809/.8896 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi KW - Glissant, Édouard, KW - Walcott, Derek KW - Frankétienne KW - Rankine, Claudia, KW - Literature KW - Black authors KW - History and criticism KW - Poetry KW - Caribbean poetry KW - African influences KW - Cultural pluralism KW - African diaspora in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Miscegenation in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-306) and index; Preliminary Material -- OUT OF THE ABYSS: COMMONPLACES OF REPETITION AND REDEMPTION -- GLISSANT’S COMMON PLACES -- WALCOTT’S ALLEGORY OF HISTORY -- A BACKWARD FAITH IN WALCOTT’S “THE SCHOONER FLIGHT” -- CLAUDIA RANKINE: JANE EYRE’S BLUES AT THE END OF THE ALPHABET -- DEAR DIARY: AMANIFESTO – WEREWERE LIKING’S ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL -- RITUALIZING UTOPIA IN ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL -- MASKS OF AFFLICTION IN FRANKÉTIENNE’S HAITI -- FRANKÉTIENNE’S LOGORRHEA: AN EXCESS OF SEEMING -- “THE HORIZON DEVOURS MY VOICE”: NOTES ON TRANSLATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the “commonplace” to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attainable, differentially common future. Putting poets Frankétienne (Haiti), Werewere Liking (Côte d’Ivoire), Derek Walcott (St Lucia), and Claudia Rankine (Jamaica) in dialogue with Romantic poets and theorists, as well as with the more recent thinkers Édouard Glissant, Walter Benjamin, and Emmanuel Levinas, Oakley shows how African Atlantic poets formally revive Romantic forms, ranging from the social utopian manifesto to the poète maudit , in their pursuit of a redemptive allegory of African Atlantic experiences. Common Places addresses issues in African and Caribbean literary studies, Romanticism, poetics, rhetorical theory, comparative literature, and translation theory, and further, models a postcolonial critique in the aesthetic-ethical and “new aestheticist” vein UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401206952 ER -