Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century /
Li, Stephanie, 1977-
Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century / Stephanie Li. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement; Chapter 2. Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole's Open City; Chapter 3. The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu; Chapter 4. Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chapter 5. Becoming His Own Father: Obama's Dreams from My Father; Conclusion: Blackness Now; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.
The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization.
9780813592817 9780813592794
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Black people--Race identity--America.
Black people in literature--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS153 / .P363 2018
Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century / Stephanie Li. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement; Chapter 2. Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole's Open City; Chapter 3. The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu; Chapter 4. Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chapter 5. Becoming His Own Father: Obama's Dreams from My Father; Conclusion: Blackness Now; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.
The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization.
9780813592817 9780813592794
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Black people--Race identity--America.
Black people in literature--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS153 / .P363 2018