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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777009103321

Autore

Schipper Mineke

Titolo

Imagining insiders : Africa and the question of belonging / / Mineke Schipper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Cassell, , 1999

ISBN

1-281-29150-1

9786611291501

1-84714-198-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Literature, culture, and identity

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Race

Difference (Psychology)

Civilization, Western - African influences

White people in literature

Africans - Race identity

African Americans - Race identity

Sexism

Africa Civilization Western influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed