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‘Shuttles in the Rocking Loom’: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction.

This 105,000 word monograph ranges extensively, examining the work of twenty-six Anglophone and Francophone novelists from across the twentieth century. Engaging with several theories of the transnational, diasporic cultural formations initiated by racial slavery, including those of Édouard Glissant and Paul Gilroy, the study brings into focus their spatial aspects to shape a ‘geographical’ approach to black fiction. The research in African American, Caribbean and Black British literatures involves the negotiation of multiple social contexts, shared and comparative expressive traditions, a spectrum of charged identity politics, and complex relations between diasporan historical experience and shifting representations of community.