Michelle M Wright

Becoming Black

Creating Identity in the African Diaspora

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An important book for scholars of the African diaspora, "Becoming Black" puts the word 'diaspora' back into African American studies. There are bold new conversations here."--Sharon Holland, author of "Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 146mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332886
• ISBN-10: 0822332884
• Artikelnr.: 22047845

Autorenporträt

Michelle M. Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a coeditor of Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West 1
1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other
> 2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar
Senghor, and Aime Cesaire 66
3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought
and the Black (Male) Subject
> 4. How I Got Ovah: Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female
Subject 136
5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris
> Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak? 229
Notes 233
Bibliography 261
Index 269