جغرافيا الشتات والذاكرة العابرة تداخل السرد الجداري والروائي في فضاء المحيط الأطلسي الأسود

This intermedial study explores the convergence of narrative mural painting and diasporic literature as a living, resistant archive against colonial erasure within the space of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic. Spanning two pivotal eras (1934 and 2019), the paper conducts a comparative analysis pairing Aaron Douglas’s murals with Zora Neale Hurston’s novel from the Harlem Renaissance, alongside contemporary Lisbon street art murals paired with Bernardine Evaristo’s polyphonic novel. The importance of this research lies in unveiling the transformative power of visual and textual discourses in turning public space and silenced memory into an active, resistant archive. It re-articulates diasporic identity and heals the trauma of displacement through a creative synthesis between the monumentality of the wall and the fluidity of the written word.