ABSTRACT
Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and post-colonialism represent a tripartite social movement that has, at its core, human ecological encounters, negotiations, and mediations between peoples and geographical spaces. For the Americas, the contiguous historical trail of encounter with the indigenous populations of region has a fi fteenth-century context as the Western historical account retells the collision of Europeans onto unforeseen territories in nefarious waters. For Latin America, the colonial encounters and subsequent waves of migration form the foundation for social interaction and bartering of cultures, as peoples and their endemic traditions underwent a process of transculturation in the colonial, postcolonial, and transnational space. In as much, the chapters in this section purpose to engage the geo-cultural politics of space using literature as the medium. The three chapters in this section query transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and post-colonialism and their implication(s) for subjects of African ancestry within region through literary analysis.
