African Identities

Description:

African Identities explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by: * Toni Morrison * Alice Walker * Gloria Naylor * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o * Chinua Achebe * and V.S. Naipaul. For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.

subjects: History and criticism,  English fiction,  Race identity,  Blacks in literature,  Blacks,  African Americans,  Women, Black, in literature,  In literature,  Black authors,  Fiction,  Literature,  Afro-Americans,  Blacks, race identity,  African americans, race identity,  Africa, in literature,  English fiction, african authors, history and criticism,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Women in literature,  Women, black,  Black people,  Black people in literature,  Personnes noires,  Identité ethnique,  Noirs américains,  Personnes noires dans la littérature,  Noires dans la littérature,  Roman anglais,  Auteurs noirs,  Histoire et critique,  Dans la littérature,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Ethnic Studies,  African American Studies,  Identiteit,  Zwarten,  Pan-Afrikanisme,  Bellettrie,  Amerikaans

Places: Sub-Saharan Africa

Times: 20th century,  19th century