African identities : race, nation and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism and Black literatures /

Kanneh, Kadiatu, 1966-

African identities : race, nation and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism and Black literatures / Kadiatu Kanneh. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.

Chapter 1 THE MEANING OF AFRICA -- Texts and histories -- chapter 2 'COMING HOME' -- Pan-Africanisms and national identities -- chapter 3 REMEMBERED LANDSCAPES -- African-American appropriations of Africa -- chapter 4 CROSSING BORDERS -- Race, sexuality and the body -- chapter AFTERWORD.

Kanneh locates Black identity in relation to Africa and discovers how histories connected with the domination, imagination, and interpretation of Africa are constructive of a range of political and theoretic parameters around race.


English.

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1800-1999


Black people--Race identity.
African Americans--Race identity.
Black people in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--Black authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century.
Noirs--Identité ethnique.
Noirs américains--Identité ethnique.
Noirs dans la littérature.
Noires dans la littérature.
Roman anglais--19e siècle.
Roman anglais--Auteurs noirs--Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--African American Studies.
African Americans--Race identity.
Black people in literature.
Black people--Race identity.
English fiction.
English fiction--Black authors.
Literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Identiteit.
Zwarten.
Pan-Afrikanisme.
Bellettrie.
Amerikaans.


Africa, Sub-Saharan--In literature.
Afrique noire dans la littérature.
Afrique subsaharienne--Dans la littérature.
Sub-Saharan Africa.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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