Race and Identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father [electronic resource] : A Collection of Critical Essays

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeitler, Michael A.

Contributor:

Evans, Charlene T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father.

Obama, Barack.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines significant aspects of President Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father both in relation to the African American literary tradition and to the context of the relevant historical and cultural productions that inform it. The authors view the book a work of literature and compare it to other works by black authors such as Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison among others. Some authors contest the idea that the book was written during a pre-political stage in President Obama's life because it was released to coincide with his first political campaign in Chicago, Il

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Erin Ponton Fiero: A Knot to Bind Our Experiences Together; Granville Ganter: No Apology for the Show; David Mastey: Slumming and/as Self Making in Barak Obama's Dreams of My Father; Claire Joy: In Search of My Father's Garden; Michael Zeitler: An Image of Africa; Rita Saylors: Obama, Ellison, and the Search for Identity; Letizia Guglielmo: Voices of His Mothers; Patricia Harris Gillies: Queer Coherence; Dolores V. Sisco: The Search for Race and Masculine Identity; Charlene Evans: Beyond Race

Nicholas Powers: Glorious BurdensAbout the Editors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

0-7734-2148-3

OCLC:

793511264