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- Title
Aesthetics and Intertexts of Resistance and Liberation in the African Diaspora: Hip-hop and Créolité.
- Authors
Joslin, Isaac
- Abstract
The article examines the aesthetic modalities and intertexts of poetry from the francophone and anglophone African diasporas. Topics covered include an analysis of the structural and stylistic elements of the poetic discourses of creolite in the Caribbean and Hip-Hop in North America, and how the principal forms of expression of the Afro-Caribbean and African-American identity construction has disrupted cultural and literary norms through intertextual relationality and aesthetic appropriation.
- Subjects
AESTHETICISM (Literature); INTERTEXTUALITY; AFRICAN diaspora; AFRICAN literature; AFRICAN poetry
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 2, p72
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Article