Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of GlobalizationWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, semicircular social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent,