LEADER 03421nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910777009103321 005 20230321165140.0 010 $a1-281-29150-1 010 $a9786611291501 010 $a1-84714-198-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000415606 035 $a(EBL)436891 035 $a(OCoLC)228657794 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176711 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11922902 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176711 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206031 035 $a(PQKB)10357398 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436891 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436891 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224610 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129150 035 $a(OCoLC)893334517 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000415606 100 $a19990106d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImagining insiders $eAfrica and the question of belonging /$fMineke Schipper 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cCassell,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) 225 1 $aLiterature, culture, and identity 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-304-70478-4 311 0 $a0-304-70479-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [198]-216) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThis study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which ""insiders"" and ""outsiders"", ""self"" and ""otherness"" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed 410 0$aLiterature, culture, and identity. 606 $aRace 606 $aDifference (Psychology) 606 $aCivilization, Western$xAfrican influences 606 $aWhite people in literature 606 $aAfricans$xRace identity 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aSexism 607 $aAfrica$xCivilization$xWestern influences 615 0$aRace. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) 615 0$aCivilization, Western$xAfrican influences. 615 0$aWhite people in literature. 615 0$aAfricans$xRace identity. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aSexism. 676 $a305.8 700 $aSchipper$b Mineke$0657183 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777009103321 996 $aImagining insiders$91297249 997 $aUNINA