Imagining insiders : Africa and the question of belonging / Mineke Schipper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schipper, Mineke.

Series:

Literature, culture, and identity.

Literature, culture, and identity

Standardized Title:

Boomstam en de krokodil. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Difference (Psychology).

Civilization, Western--African influences.

Civilization, Western.

White people in literature.

Africans--Race identity.

Africans.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Sexism.

Africa--Civilization--Western influences.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which ""insiders"" and ""outsiders"", ""self"" and ""otherness"" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Insiders and outsiders; 2 Homo caudatus: European imagination and its cultural outsiders; 3 The white man has no friends': The European Other in African oral and written literatures; 4 African roots and American black culture; 5 Negritude, Black Consciousness and beyond; 6 Black is beautiful or the whiteness of feminism; 7 Emerging from the shadows: Changing patterns in gender matters; 8 Knowledge is like an ocean: Insiders, outsiders and the academy; 9 Towards a culture of interdiscursivity; Interviews; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-216) and index.

ISBN:

9786611291501

9781281291509

1281291501

9781847141989

1847141986

OCLC:

228657794