Literary Pan-Africanism in Caribbean literature
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429020193-28
Abstract
The global Pan-African consciousness of Africans in the Caribbean was forged in the belly of the slave ships. The bond was formed from their awareness of a common horrid circumstance, and the solidarity that must persist in order to bear and surpass their new situation. The continental Pan-African vista of the 1900s sought to politically unify Africa, after the European conquest and their arrogated division of Africa during the Berlin Conference. This chapter focuses on the illustrations of Pan-African praxis in Afro-Caribbean Literature. It describes the migration and exchanges of ideas within the Caribbean and, inescapably, to and from the region. The chapter is worth noting that within the framework of both post-Transatlantic Slave Trade and post Berlin Conference, the ideological predecessor of the 1900’s Pan-African movement is the Caribbean-born Edward Wilmot Blyden. By 1925, with the emergence of the Mouvement Indigéniste, Haiti entered its next phase of literary maturation into Haitian and, by extension, Caribbean literature.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Literary Pan-Africanism in Caribbean literature, in R. Rabaka (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism, Routledge, p. 418-432
Scholar Commons Citation
Simeon-Jones, Kersuze, "Literary Pan-Africanism in Caribbean literature" (2020). School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Faculty Publications. 51.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sigs_facpub/51
