At home in diaspora : Black international writing /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walters, Wendy W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Himes, Chester B., > 1909-1984 > Criticism and interpretation.
Phillips, Caryl > Criticism and interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle > Criticism and interpretation.
Njami, Simon, > 1962- > Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Critique et interprétation.
Himes, Chester B., > 1909- > Critique et interprétation.
Phillips, Caryl > Critique et interprétation.
Cliff, Michelle > Critique et interprétation.
Simon, Njami > Critique et interprétation.
Cliff, Michelle
Himes, Chester B., > 1909-1984
Phillips, Caryl
Njami, Simon, > 1962-
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960
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.
African diaspora.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature antillaise (anglaise) > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Personnes noires > Antilles > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Internationalisme dans la littérature.
Exilés dans la littérature.
Exil dans la littérature.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African Americans in literature
African diaspora in literature
American fiction > African American authors
Black people > Intellectual life
Exiles in literature
Internationalism in literature
West Indian literature (English) > Black authors
West Indies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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