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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 Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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 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. Review ' 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 eff

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Author

Kadiatu Kanneh

Publisher

London ; Routledge, 1998.

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203158487

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Sociology