“A Realm of Monuments and Water”

Lorde-ian Erotics and Shange’s African Diaspora Cosmopolitanism

From: Black Geographies

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The continued influence of oppressive “narratives of the past” sheds light on a benefit of African Diaspora Cosmopolitanism: it offers ways of defining concepts such as “freedom,” “family,” or the “erotic” that are alternatives to dominant modes of thinking, especially when these alternatives can tap into groups typically marginalized as intellectually unimportant.