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
Main Author: Walters, Wendy W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960.
Njami, Simon, > 1962-
Phillips, Caryl.
Himes, Chester B., > 1909-1984.
Cliff, Michelle.
Simon, Njami > Critique et interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle > Critique et interpretation.
Phillips, Caryl > Critique et interpretation.
Himes, Chester B., > 1909- > Critique et interpretation.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Critique et interpretation.
Njami, Simon, > 1962- > Criticism and interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle > Criticism and interpretation.
Phillips, Caryl > Criticism and interpretation.
Himes, Chester B., > 1909-1984 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
West Indian literature (English) > Black authors.
Internationalism in literature.
Exiles in literature.
Black people > Intellectual life.
American fiction > African American authors.
African diaspora in literature.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Africains > Pays etrangers, dans la litterature.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Exil dans la litterature.
Exiles dans la litterature.
Internationalisme dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Personnes noires > Antilles > Vie intellectuelle.
Litterature antillaise (anglaise) > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Black people > West Indies > Intellectual life.
West Indian literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
West Indies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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