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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808533003321

Autore

Li Stephanie <1977->

Titolo

Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century / / Stephanie Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8135-9279-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 pages)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

African diaspora in literature

Black people - Race identity - America

Black people in literature - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Signifyin(g) on the slave narrative: African memoirs of war and displacement -- Uncanny rememories in Teju Cole's open city -- The impossibility of invisibility in the novels of Dinaw Mengestu -- Refiguring the ancestor in the fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Becoming his own father: 0bama's dreams from my father -- Conclusion: blackness now.