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- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins Revisited
- Part II Major Concepts
- Chapter 7 The Shock of Relation
- Chapter 8 Strangers and Brothers
- Chapter 9 Incommensurability, Inextricability, Entanglement
- Chapter 10 Radical Black Poetics and South–South Movement
- Chapter 11 Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine Is Still the Issue
- Chapter 12 Refugee Ecologies
- Chapter 13 Diaspora and Detention
- Part III Readings in Genre, Gender, and Genealogies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - Radical Black Poetics and South–South Movement
from Part II - Major Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins Revisited
- Part II Major Concepts
- Chapter 7 The Shock of Relation
- Chapter 8 Strangers and Brothers
- Chapter 9 Incommensurability, Inextricability, Entanglement
- Chapter 10 Radical Black Poetics and South–South Movement
- Chapter 11 Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine Is Still the Issue
- Chapter 12 Refugee Ecologies
- Chapter 13 Diaspora and Detention
- Part III Readings in Genre, Gender, and Genealogies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores Claudia Jones’s poetics of carcerality and politics of Black internationalism, linking conventions of poetic form to an ever-growing collective of revolutionary women. Jones’s poetry proposes a remapping of diaspora as a circuit of solidarity between women workers and revolutionaries that stretches from Puerto Rico to West Virginia to China and Russia. The extensive corpus of writing about Jones has yet to focus its attention on her poetic devices, and in particular her crafting of rhyme, syntax, and stanza structure. This chapter thinks through some of the ways that poetic tropes and schemes not only emerge from and reflect conditions that might be called diasporic, but also present unique visions of south–south movement and radical responses in their own right. Jones’s poetry challenges transhistorical claims about what poetry is, claims that have sometimes been produced through classroom-based pedagogies and genealogies.
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- Diaspora and Literary Studies , pp. 184 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023