Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century /
The fast-changing contours of the African diaspora in the United States demand that we establish new ways of understanding black identity in the twenty-first century. Twenty-First Century Pan-African American Literature takes up writings by African born or identified authors like Teju Cole, Chimaman...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Signifyin(g) on the slave narrative: African memoirs of war and displacement
- Uncanny rememories in Teju Cole's open city
- The impossibility of invisibility in the novels of Dinaw Mengestu
- Refiguring the ancestor in the fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Becoming his own father: 0bama's dreams from my father
- Conclusion: blackness now.