Pan-African American Literature : Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century /

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The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Stephanie, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
University of South Alabama
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Schwarze > Motiv
Literatur
Black people > Race identity.
Black people in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African diaspora in literature.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Personnes noires dans la litterature > 21e siecle.
Africains > Pays etrangers, dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Black people in literature > 21st century.
Black people > Race identity > America.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement; Chapter 2. Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole's Open City; Chapter 3. The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu; Chapter 4. Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chapter 5. Becoming His Own Father: Obama's Dreams from My Father; Conclusion: Blackness Now; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.

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