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The African diaspora & autobiographics : skeins of self and skin / Chinosole.

Van Pelt Library PS366.A35 C48 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chinosole, 1942-
Series:
San Francisco State University series in philosophy 1067-0017 ; vol. 11.
San Francisco State University series in philosophy, 1067-0017 ; vol. 11
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American prose literature--African American authors.
Autobiographical fiction, American--African American authors--History and criticism.
Africans--Foreign countries--Biography--History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction--Black authors--History and criticism.
Black people--Biography--History and criticism.
Autobiography--African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
Autobiography--Black authors.
Black people in literature.
Self in literature.
Autobiography.
Authors, Black.
Black people--Biography.
Black people.
Autobiographical fiction.
Africans.
Foreign countries.
Biography.
Autobiographical fiction, American.
African American authors.
Genre:
Autobiographical fiction, American.
Physical Description:
xiv, 187 pages ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
African diaspora and autobiographics
Place of Publication:
New York : P. Lang, [2001]
Contents:
1 "Tryin' to Get Over": Narrative Strategy in Equiano's Autobiography 1
2 Individual and Collective Selves Portrayed in Wright's Black Boy 15
3 Tell Freedom as Analogue to Black Boy 37
4 Agostinho Neto's Sagrada esperanca 53
5 "The Act of Speaking in Tongues": Communal Presence and Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin 71
6 A Radical Iconography: From Harriet Jacobs to Assata Shakur 97
7 Doubling Exposure with Inadmissible Evidence 125
8 Audre Lorde and Matrilineal Diaspora: "moving history beyond nightmare into structures for the future..." 135
9 Conclusion: Skeins of Self and Skin 151.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-175) and index.
ISBN:
0820438170
OCLC:
40460069

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