Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century / Stephanie Li.

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"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, Chimama...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Stephanie, 1977- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African diaspora in literature.
Black people > Race identity > America.
African Americans in literature.
Black people in literature > 21st century.
American literature > African American authors.
Black people in literature.
Black people > Race identity.
America.
Literatur.
Schwarze > Motiv.
Ethnische Identität > Motiv.
USA.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:vii, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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: Obama's Dreams from my father
  • Conclusion: blackness now.