03216nam 2200733Ia 450 991078411110332120220204203102.00-8166-9680-2(CKB)1000000000346708(EBL)310708(OCoLC)247442079(SSID)ssj0000107036(PQKBManifestationID)11128720(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107036(PQKBWorkID)10016666(PQKB)11358979(MiAaPQ)EBC310708(MdBmJHUP)muse38904(Au-PeEL)EBL310708(CaPaEBR)ebr10151232(CaONFJC)MIL523464(OCoLC)133167614(PPN)220473382(EXLCZ)99100000000034670820050110d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt home in diaspora[electronic resource] Black international writing /Wendy W. WaltersMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20051 online resource (206 p.)Critical American studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-4492-6 0-8166-4491-8 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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.Critical American studies series.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismWest Indian literature (English)Black authorsHistory and criticismBlack peopleWest IndiesIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literatureInternationalism in literatureExiles in literatureAfrican diaspora in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.West Indian literature (English)Black authorsHistory and criticism.Black peopleIntellectual life.African Americans in literature.Internationalism in literature.Exiles in literature.African diaspora in literature.809/.8896Walters Wendy W980384MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784111103321At home in diaspora3847567UNINA