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The African diaspora & autobiographics : skeins of self and skin

Author: Chinosole
Publisher: New York : P. Lang, ©2001.
Series: San Francisco State University series in philosophy, v. 11.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora.

Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs, Chinosole traces the political and aesthetic linkages between

African Diaspora and Autobiographics focuses on the affirmative function of Afrikan autobiography as a counter-hegemonic response to the history of racist representation and, more important, as a powerful enactment of Black iconography in the struggle for liberation."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more...

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Chinosole, 1942-
African diaspora & autobiographics.
New York : P. Lang, c2001
(OCoLC)594353003
Online version:
Chinosole, 1942-
African diaspora & autobiographics.
New York : P. Lang, c2001
(OCoLC)606553128
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Chinosole
ISBN: 0820438170 9780820438177
OCLC Number: 40460069
Description: xiv, 187 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. "Tryin' to Get Over": Narrative Strategy in Equiano's Autobiography --
2. Individual and Collective Selves Portrayed in Wright's Black Boy --
3. Tell Freedom as Analogue to Black Boy --
4. Agostinho Neto's Sagrada esperanca --
5. "The Act of Speaking in Tongues": Communal Presence and Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin --
6. A Radical Iconography: From Harriet Jacobs to Assata Shakur --
7. Doubling Exposure with Inadmissible Evidence --
8. Audre Lorde and Matrilineal Diaspora: "moving history beyond nightmare into structures for the future ..." --
9. Conclusion: Skeins of Self and Skin.
Series Title: San Francisco State University series in philosophy, v. 11.
Other Titles: African diaspora and autobiographics
Responsibility: Chinosole.

Abstract:

"Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora.

Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs, Chinosole traces the political and aesthetic linkages between these early writings and autobiographical literature produced by writers in the twentieth century, namely Richard Wright, Peter Abrahams, George Lamming, Agostinho Neto, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, and Evelyn Williams.

African Diaspora and Autobiographics focuses on the affirmative function of Afrikan autobiography as a counter-hegemonic response to the history of racist representation and, more important, as a powerful enactment of Black iconography in the struggle for liberation."--BOOK JACKET.

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