Title: The African diaspora & autobiographics
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: African American authors, African Americans, African Americans in literature, Africans, American Autobiographical fiction, American prose literature, Autobiographical fiction, Autobiographical fiction, American, Autobiography, Biography, Black authors, Blacks, Blacks in literature, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Self in literature, African americans in literature, American prose literature, history and criticism, Autobiographical fiction, history and criticism, Black people, Black people in literature
Places: Foreign countries
LC classification: PS366.A35 C48 2001