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At Home in Diaspora : Black International Writing /

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...

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Autor principal: Walters, Wendy W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "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.