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UNINA9910777009103321 |
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Autore |
Schipper Mineke |
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Titolo |
Imagining insiders : Africa and the question of belonging / / Mineke Schipper |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Cassell, , 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29150-1 |
9786611291501 |
1-84714-198-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Collana |
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Literature, culture, and identity |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Race |
Difference (Psychology) |
Civilization, Western - African influences |
White people in literature |
Africans - Race identity |
African Americans - Race identity |
Sexism |
Africa Civilization Western influences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-216) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Insiders and outsiders; 2 Homo caudatus: European imagination and its cultural outsiders; 3 The white man has no friends': The European Other in African oral and written literatures; 4 African roots and American black culture; 5 Negritude, Black Consciousness and beyond; 6 Black is beautiful or the whiteness of feminism; 7 Emerging from the shadows: Changing patterns in gender matters; 8 Knowledge is like an ocean: Insiders, outsiders and the academy; 9 Towards a culture of interdiscursivity; Interviews; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which ""insiders"" and ""outsiders"", ""self"" and ""otherness"" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues |
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