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Description Publication Date: May 24, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0415164451 | ISBN-13: 978-0415164450 | Edition: 1 | filetype: pdf 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 Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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 effort to deconstruct and reconstruct the varied conceptualisation of African identity, ...' - Contemporary Review 'Kanneh has given students of African and African-American literatures a useful tool to navigate successfully the difficult terrain of reading not only the literature of Africa and its Diaspora but also 'the meanings of African identities'without a doubt, this is a book worth reading.' - Margo Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz About the Author Kadiatu Kanneh teaches at the University of Birmingham, UK. Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 24, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0415164451 ISBN-13: 978-0415164450 http://www.amazon.com/African-Identities-Ethnography-Pan-Africanism-Literatures/dp/0415164451 Tags: race, racism, oppression, nation, nationalist, marx, marxism, marxist, das kapital, africa, african, america, american, african american, black, literature, ww2, cold war, ghana, Kwame, Nkrumah, IMF, capital, communism, capitalism, left, right, politics, pan-african, black star line, Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Delany, World Bank, self-reliance, self-determination, independence, colonialism, UK, GB, Great Britain, England, French, dark continent, african studies, afro-centric, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul Sharing Widget |