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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Stephanie, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.