“Take Kisses Back to Africa”: Diaspora and Return to African Culture in Harryette Mullen’s Poetry

摘要

As one of the African diasporas,Harryette Mullen arranged a spiritual return to her African origin.Through memory tracing of Africa,a connection between the poet and Africa has been established.Mullen presents ways of spiritual return for contemporary African diasporas which can be seen as the journey of self-pursuing.Facing the unhealable cracks between diasporas and their origin,Mullen tries to bridge the cracks of African literary development while embraces it by constructing her diasporic identity and obtaining ethnic writer’s authority through it.