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Autore |
Kanneh Kadiatu <1966, > |
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Titolo |
African identities : race, nation, and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism, and black literatures / / Kadiatu Kanneh |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
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ISBN |
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0-7546-1947-8 |
1-134-71179-4 |
1-134-71180-8 |
0-203-15848-2 |
1-280-33488-6 |
0-203-00539-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Black people - Race identity |
African Americans - Race identity |
Black people in literature |
Women, Black, in literature |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
English fiction - Black authors - History and criticism |
Africa, Sub-Saharan 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 (p.193-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; The meaning of Africa: texts and histories; 'Coming home': Pan-Africanisms and national identities; Remembered landscapes: African-American appropriations of Africa; Crossing borders: race, sexuality and the body; Afterword; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as |
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signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by: * Toni Morrison * Alice Walker * Gloria Naylor * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
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