03448nam 2200757 a 450 991045123410332120220131184436.01-281-29150-197866112915011-84714-198-6(CKB)1000000000415606(EBL)436891(OCoLC)228657794(SSID)ssj0000176711(PQKBManifestationID)11922902(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176711(PQKBWorkID)10206031(PQKB)10357398(MiAaPQ)EBC436891(Au-PeEL)EBL436891(CaPaEBR)ebr10224610(CaONFJC)MIL129150(OCoLC)893334517(EXLCZ)99100000000041560619990106d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImagining insiders[electronic resource] Africa and the question of belonging /Mineke SchipperLondon ;New York Cassell19991 online resource (240 p.)Literature, culture, and identityDescription based upon print version of record.0-304-70478-4 0-304-70479-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-216) and index.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; IndexThis 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, with exaLiterature, culture, and identity.RaceDifference (Psychology)Civilization, WesternAfrican influencesWhite people in literatureAfricansRace identityAfrican AmericansRace identitySexismAfricaCivilizationWestern influencesElectronic books.Race.Difference (Psychology)Civilization, WesternAfrican influences.White people in literature.AfricansRace identity.African AmericansRace identity.Sexism.305.8Schipper Mineke657183MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451234103321Imagining insiders1297249UNINA