Pan-African American Literature : : Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century / / Stephanie Li.
The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
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| Summary: | The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization. |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780813592817 9783110666083 |
| DOI: | 10.36019/9780813592817 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Stephanie Li. |