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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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