The African diaspora & autobiographics
Subtitle: skeins of self and skin
By: Chinosole.
Series: San Francisco State University series in philosophy,; v. 11
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Africans -- Foreign countries -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism.; Blacks -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Autobiography -- African American authors.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; African Americans in literature.; Autobiography -- Black authors.; Blacks in literature.; Self in literature.
Other titles: African diaspora and autobiographics
Description: "Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora.

Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs, Chinosole traces the political and aesthetic linkages between these early writings and autobiographical literature produced by writers in the twentieth century, namely Richard Wright, Peter Abrahams, George Lamming, Agostinho Neto, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, and Evelyn Williams.

African Diaspora and Autobiographics focuses on the affirmative function of Afrikan autobiography as a counter-hegemonic response to the history of racist representation and, more important, as a powerful enactment of Black iconography in the struggle for liberation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index.