1st Edition
African Identities Pan-Africanisms and Black Identities
By Kadiatu Kanneh
Copyright 1998
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This fascinating and well researched study 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 Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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... Read more
Introduction. 1. The Meaning of Africa: Texts and Histories 2. 'Coming Home': Pan-Africanisms and National Identities 3. Remembered Landscapes: African-American Appropriations of Africa 4. Crossing Borders: Race, Sexuality and the Body Afterword. Bibliography.
Biography
Kadiatu Kanneh
'African Identities is a study richly detailed and admirably sophisticated in its use of cultural theory and its engagement with the large number of writers it treats . . . The work's interdisciplinary nature will make it an invaluable resource in African studies, African-American studies, and cultural studies in general.' - Margo Hendricks, The Modern Language Review
'African Identities is a brilliant and sustained effort to deconstruct and reconstruct the varied conceptualisation of African identity, ...' - Contemporary Review
'Kanneh has given students of African and African-American literatures a useful tool to navigate successfully the difficult terrain of reading not only the literature of Africa and its Diaspora but also 'the meanings of African identities'without a doubt, this is a book worth reading.' - Margo Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz
