African Identities

Pan-Africanisms and Black Identities
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-16445-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

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Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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
* Chinua Achebe
* and V.S. Naipaul.
For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kanneh, Kadiatu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. 1. The Meaning of Africa: Texts and Histories 2. 'Coming Home': Pan-Africanisms and National Identities 3. Remembered Landscapes: African-American Appropriations of Africa 4. Crossing Borders: Race, Sexuality and the Body Afterword. Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Kadiatu Kanneh