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African, American How America Dreamed a Continent by David Peterson del Mar is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is African, American How America Dreamed a Continent about?
Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs's <i>Tarzan </i>novels to the 'black Zion' of Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del Mar explores the ways in which American fantasies of Africa have evolved over time, as well as th
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Peterson del Mar
- Publisher
- National Book Network International;Del Mar, David Peterson., Zed Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781783608539
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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