![]() ![]() Through its reinvention of the individual subject and the collective consciousness of thediaspora, this paradigm powerfully challenges European hegemony. No less alluring is this ideology's promise to reinvent Evan's identity by positioning him within a seamless continuum of kinship and communal belonging. Wanda employs familial rhetoric to encode a heroic pursuit of racial solidarity around the globe. Influenced in part by his girlfriend Wanda, his "moral touchstone," Evan hopes that this transatlantic voyage will counter European designs "to keep the black diaspora from ever coming home to reclaim the power of familyhood" (165). In the 1980s, Evan Norris, the narrator of Reginald McKnight's novel I Get on the Bus (1990), crosses the Atlantic from America to Africa under the sway of political currents that propelled a critical strain of diasporic theory in the twentieth century. ![]()
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