At home in diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : Black international writing / / Wendy W. Walters

• Autore: Walters Wendy W
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.8896
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism; West Indian literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism; Black people - West Indies - Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; Internationalism in literature; Exiles in literature; African diaspora in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: At home in diaspora
• ISBN: 0-8166-9680-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784111103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical American studies series.