03426nam 2200757 a 450 991082212540332120200520144314.01-281-29150-197866112915011-84714-198-6(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|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagining insiders Africa and the question of belonging /Mineke Schipper1st ed.London ;New York Cassell19991 online resource (240 pages)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 discussedLiterature, culture, and identity.RaceDifference (Psychology)Civilization, WesternAfrican influencesWhites in literatureAfricansRace identityAfrican AmericansRace identitySexismAfricaCivilizationWestern influencesRace.Difference (Psychology)Civilization, WesternAfrican influences.Whites in literature.AfricansRace identity.African AmericansRace identity.Sexism.305.8Schipper Mineke657183MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822125403321Imagining insiders1297249UNINA