Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
Autor Professor Stephanie Lien Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2018 – vârsta ani
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting 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. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization.
The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting 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. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813592770
ISBN-10: 0813592771
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813592771
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
STEPHANIE LI is the Susan D. Gubar Chair in Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of four books, including Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama (Rutgers University Press).
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
"Timely and promising, Pan-African American Literature will make a major and distinctive contribution to African American studies, cultural studies, and American literary studies."
"Essential."
"[An] important book."
Descriere
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.