num_pages: 216
description: 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generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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 * 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.
language: English
title: African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
titlecomplete: African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
publisher: Routledge