Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 229 p)
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780304704798
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0304704792
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9781847141989
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0304704784
Serie:
Literature, culture, and identity
Originaltitel:
Boomstam en de krokodil. 〈engl.〉
Inhalt:
This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialo
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-216) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Insiders and outsiders; 2 Homo caudatus: European imagination and its cultural outsiders; 3 The white man has no friends': The European Other in African oral and written literatures; 4 African roots and American black culture; 5 Negritude, Black Consciousness and beyond; 6 Black is beautiful or the whiteness of feminism; 7 Emerging from the shadows: Changing patterns in gender matters; 8 Knowledge is like an ocean: Insiders, outsiders and the academy; 9 Towards a culture of interdiscursivity; Interviews; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780304704781
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Imagining Insiders : Africa and the Question of Belonging
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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Mehr zum Autor:
Schipper, Mineke 1938-
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