Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver

We live in a moment of hardening of nationalist discourses against immigration and racial minorities. In this conservative climate, Canada prevails as a benchmark for multicultural integration. However, there are voices within the nation that question this image of harmony. The case of the Black Van...

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Autor: Pérez García, Fernando|||0000-0001-5552-1151
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
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Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Black, Vancouver, literature, space, multiculturalism
Negro, Vancouver, literatura, espacio, multiculturalismo
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spelling Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black VancouverPérez García, Fernando|||0000-0001-5552-1151Black, Vancouver, literature, space, multiculturalismNegro, Vancouver, literatura, espacio, multiculturalismoWe live in a moment of hardening of nationalist discourses against immigration and racial minorities. In this conservative climate, Canada prevails as a benchmark for multicultural integration. However, there are voices within the nation that question this image of harmony. The case of the Black Vancouver community has not yet been studied in depth in this regard. This article of reflection aims to contribute to the debate on the relations of the nation-state and subaltern groups, and how they manifest themselves in the multicultural city. Vancouver has been chosen as a paradigmatic space because of its transcultural character built on indigenous lands. The object of study was the literature of Wayde Compton author and black activist of the city. Stemming from theories of the socio-spatial dialectic of Edward Soja and Leonie Sandercock, this article analyses the connection between the city, its representation in literature and its effects on social relationships. The work of Compton and its parallelism with the geo-history of Vancouver and subaltern ethnic communities were analysed. The result reaches a reading of Vancouver as a (post)colonial city and space of subaltern multiculturalism, regarding the official Canadian model, and colonialism that has made invisible to the Black Vancouver and the indigenous communities.20192019-12-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10651/56871reponame:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedoinstname:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/568712026-06-07T06:38:51Z
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title Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
spellingShingle Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
Pérez García, Fernando|||0000-0001-5552-1151
Black, Vancouver, literature, space, multiculturalism
Negro, Vancouver, literatura, espacio, multiculturalismo
title_short Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
title_full Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
title_fullStr Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
title_full_unstemmed Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
title_sort Flickering Bodies: Mapping Multiculturalism and Insurgent Citizenship in Wayde Compton’s Black Vancouver
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez García, Fernando|||0000-0001-5552-1151
author Pérez García, Fernando|||0000-0001-5552-1151
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Negro, Vancouver, literatura, espacio, multiculturalismo
topic Black, Vancouver, literature, space, multiculturalism
Negro, Vancouver, literatura, espacio, multiculturalismo
description We live in a moment of hardening of nationalist discourses against immigration and racial minorities. In this conservative climate, Canada prevails as a benchmark for multicultural integration. However, there are voices within the nation that question this image of harmony. The case of the Black Vancouver community has not yet been studied in depth in this regard. This article of reflection aims to contribute to the debate on the relations of the nation-state and subaltern groups, and how they manifest themselves in the multicultural city. Vancouver has been chosen as a paradigmatic space because of its transcultural character built on indigenous lands. The object of study was the literature of Wayde Compton author and black activist of the city. Stemming from theories of the socio-spatial dialectic of Edward Soja and Leonie Sandercock, this article analyses the connection between the city, its representation in literature and its effects on social relationships. The work of Compton and its parallelism with the geo-history of Vancouver and subaltern ethnic communities were analysed. The result reaches a reading of Vancouver as a (post)colonial city and space of subaltern multiculturalism, regarding the official Canadian model, and colonialism that has made invisible to the Black Vancouver and the indigenous communities.
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