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Avery Slater turns to the way that problems traditionally considered regional in fact have global resonances. “Flood Poetics: Nigeria, New Orleans, and Oṣundare’s City without People” focuses on Niyi Oṣundare’s poetic meditation on the Katrina disaster in New Orleans in order to demonstrate the way that this natural and manmade disaster connects with postcolonial scholarship on the biopolitics behind allegedly “natural” disasters. At the same time, Slater argues that the Nigerian poet’s City without People: The Katrina Poems demonstrates the valuable insights of an Anglophone, global and comparative framework to think through the racial necropolitics of the American South.
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This page is a summary of: Flood Poetics, January 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003056317-16.
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