Autochthonomies : transnationalism, testimony, and transmission in the African Diaspora / Myriam J. A. Chancy.

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"In this book of textual and cultural studies, Myriam J. A. Chancy focuses on the tropes of transnationalism, testimony and transmission within African diasporic texts. Not a work simply concerned with 'racial rehabilitation' or 'inclusion' within the dominant discourses of North America and Western...

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Uniform Title:New Black studies series.
Main Author: Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
Africa > Civilization.
African diaspora > History.
African diaspora in art.
African diaspora in literature.
Black people > History.
Africa.
African diaspora.
Black people.
Civilization.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Transnationalism, testimony, and transmission in the African Diaspora.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • (Re)Presenting Racial Permeability, (Dis)Ability, and Racial (Dis)Affiliations
  • Autochthonomous Transfigurations of Race and Gender in Twenty-First-Century Transnational Genocide Testimonial Narratives
  • Subjectivity in Motion: Caribbean Women's (Dis)Articulations of Being
  • Autochthonomous Ambiguities: Travel, Memoir, and Transnational African Diasporic Subjects in (Post)colonial Contexts.