African identities
Subtitle: race, nation, and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism, and Black literatures
By: Kadiatu Kanneh.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Blacks -- Race identity; African Americans -- Race identity; Blacks in literature; Women, Black, in literature; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Black authors -- History and criticism; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- In literature
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 Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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 by: 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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.