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UNINA9910814155503321 |
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Autore |
Walters Wendy W |
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Titolo |
At home in diaspora : Black international writing / / Wendy W. Walters |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical American studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
West Indian literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism |
Blacks - West Indies - Intellectual life |
African Americans in literature |
Internationalism in literature |
Exiles in literature |
African diaspora in literature |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"On the clifflike margins of many cultures" : Richard Wright's travels -- The postcolonial as post-Enlightenment : Michelle Cliff and the genealogies of history -- Harlem on my mind : exile and community in Chester Himes's detective fiction -- "A landmark in a foreign land" : Simon Njami's Parisian scenes -- History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In At Home in Diaspora, Wendy W. Walters investigates the work of Chester Himes, Michelle Cliff, and other twentieth-century black international writers who have lived in and written from countries they do not call home. Walters suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. |
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