African identities : race, nation, and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism, and black literatures / / Kadiatu Kanneh

• Autore: Kanneh Kadiatu <1966, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896
• Soggetto topico: Black people - Race identity; African Americans - Race identity; Black people in literature; Women, Black, in literature; English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; English fiction - Black authors - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Sub-Saharan In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.193-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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 Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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'o
• Titolo autorizzato: African identities
• ISBN: 0-7546-1947-8; 1-134-71179-4; 1-134-71180-8; 0-203-15848-2; 1-280-33488-6; 0-203-00539-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783638203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II