Race and identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Michael A. Zeitler and Charlene T. Evans ; with a foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773416017
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael A. Zeitler; title: A knot to bind our experiences together : storytelling in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father and critical race theory / Erin Ponton Fiero; title: No apology for the show : performance and oratorical self-creation in Obama, Douglass, and Ellison / Granville Ganter; title: Slumming and self-making in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / David Mastey; title: In search of my father's garden : Kenya as the focal point for the study of a new kind of narrative in African American autobiography / Claire Joly; title: An image of Africa : race and identity in Barack Obama's rewriting of Conrad's 'Heart of darkness' / Michael Zeitler; title: Obama, Ellison, and the search for identity / Rita Saylors; title: Voices of his mothers : feminist interventions and identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Letizia Guglielmo; title: Queer coherence : loss and hybridity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Patricia Harris Gillies; title: The search for race and masculine identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Dolores Sisco; title: Beyond race : racial transcendence in Jean Toomer's Cane and Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Charlene T. Evans; title: Glorious burdens : a Lacanian reading of racial passing, inheritance, and paternal desire in Obama's Dreams from my father / Nicholas Powers.