African Americans - General & Miscellaneous, United States Studies, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Ethnic & Minority Studies - United States, Africana - Africa, English Literature
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Overview
This fascinating and thoughtful analysis explores the meanings associated with "Africa" and "Blackness" throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as anorigin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic emerge as signifiers for analysis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, Chinua Achebe and V.S. Naipaul. For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new ways of thinking about race.
Book Details
Published
April 9, 1998
Publisher
London ; Routledge, 1998.
Pages
216
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780415164443