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At home in diaspora : Black international writing / Wendy W. Walters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, Wendy W.
- Series:
- Critical American studies series.
- Critical American studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- West Indian literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
- West Indian literature (English).
- Black people--West Indies--Intellectual life.
- Black people.
- African Americans in literature.
- Internationalism in literature.
- Exiles in literature.
- African diaspora in literature.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wright, Richard.
- Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984--Criticism and interpretation.
- Himes, Chester B.
- Phillips, Caryl--Criticism and interpretation.
- Phillips, Caryl.
- Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cliff, Michelle.
- Njami, Simon, 1962---Criticism and interpretation.
- Njami, Simon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In At Home in Diaspora, Wendy W. Walters investigates the work of Chester Himes, Michelle Cliff, and other twentieth-century black international writers who have lived in and written from countries they do not call home. Walters suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary.
- Contents:
- "On the clifflike margins of many cultures" : Richard Wright's travels
- The postcolonial as post-Enlightenment : Michelle Cliff and the genealogies of history
- Harlem on my mind : exile and community in Chester Himes's detective fiction
- "A landmark in a foreign land" : Simon Njami's Parisian scenes
- History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9680-2
- OCLC:
- 247442079
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