Stephanie Li

Pan-African American Literature

Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Pan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592787
• ISBN-10: 081359278X
• Artikelnr.: 50761326

Autorenporträt

Li, Stephanie

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction    
1    Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and
Displacement 
2    Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole's Open City
3    The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu
4    Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5    Becoming his own Father: Obama's Dreams from My Father
Conclusion: Blackness Now
Works Cited    
Index