03391oam 2200781I 450 991082590580332120240402084450.00-7546-1947-81-134-71179-41-134-71180-80-203-15848-21-280-33488-60-203-00539-210.4324/9780203005392(CKB)1000000000247614(EBL)165188(OCoLC)56994029(SSID)ssj0000070877(PQKBManifestationID)11109762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070877(PQKBWorkID)10070030(PQKB)11765538(MiAaPQ)EBC165188(Au-PeEL)EBL165188(CaPaEBR)ebr10056097(CaONFJC)MIL33488(OCoLC)48138503(EXLCZ)99100000000024761420180331d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican identities race, nation, and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism, and black literatures /Kadiatu Kanneh1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,1998.1 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-16445-1 0-415-16444-3 Includes bibliographical references (p.193-199) and index.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; IndexThis 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 Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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'oBlack peopleRace identityAfrican AmericansRace identityBlack people in literatureWomen, Black, in literatureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionBlack authorsHistory and criticismAfrica, Sub-SaharanIn literatureBlack peopleRace identity.African AmericansRace identity.Black people in literature.Women, Black, in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionBlack authorsHistory and criticism.305.896Kanneh Kadiatu1966,1671277MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825905803321African identities4033725UNINA