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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kanneh, Kadiatu, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

English fiction--Black authors.

English fiction.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--In literature.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Black people in literature.

Women, Black, in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--Black authors--History and criticism.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 204 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

This fascinating and thoughtful analysis explores the meanings associated with "Africa" and "Blackness" throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, "African Identities" discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe and V.S. Naipaul. For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new ways of thinking about race.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0415164443

0415164451

OCLC:

37693846