In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue: Diaspora Connections

Pushpa N. Parekh
pp. 1-4
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(Re)negotiating Empire: A Postcolonial Reading of the Narrative of Refugee Experience in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Rasha Aljararwa
pp. 5-20
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Singing Blackness: Racial Discourse in Black Cuban and Black Dominican Rap and Hip-Hop

Anastasia Valecce
pp. 21-41
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Diaspora, Modernism, and Black Masculinities in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement

Shun Yin Kiang
pp. 42-56
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The People Don’t Give Up!: Afrodiasporic Social Movements in Buenaventura, Colombia and the 2017 Paro Cívico

Fernando Esquivel-Suarez, Jackeline Micolta Victoria
pp. 57-74
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Recipe for Identity: Constructing the Self in Chitrita Banerji’s A Taste of My Life

Manisha Mohanty, Amrita Satapathy
pp. 75-89
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The Erotic Black Diaspora: From Your Hands to Mine

Olivia Pearson
pp. 90-104
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“A Western Outpost of the Punjab”: Forging Landscapes of Belonging in Bhira Backhaus’s Under the Lemon Trees

Rajender Kaur
pp. 105-119
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Dis/Connected in Diaspora: An Autoethnographic Account of Translating within Language and Relating across Nation-States

Radhika Natarajan
pp. 120-133
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Racism Learnt and Unlearnt: Locating Afro-Diasporic Experiences in India in “The Shade of You” by Anushree Majumdar

Damayanti Das
pp. 134-147
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“Ye Be the Clear Morag Yourself”: Spivak, a Global Marx, and Just Weather Talk

Namita Goswami
pp. 148-164
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 165-169
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