UID:
almahu_9949161674302882
Format:
1 online resource (VII, 245 p.)
ISBN:
9783110722093
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9783110750720
Series Statement:
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 73
Content:
This study proposes that - rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics - Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism. Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Chapter I Introduction - Writing Race in the Moment of Afropolitanism --
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Chapter II Going Through The Motions - Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole's Open City --
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Chapter III (Post‐)Independent Women - Romance, Return, and Pan-African Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah --
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Chapter IV A Painful Notion of Time - Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing --
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Chapter V Conclusion - The Past Is Always Tense, the Future Perfect --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DG Ebook Package English 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110750720
In:
DG Plus DeG Package 2021 Part 1, De Gruyter, 9783110750706
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110722147
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110721942
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110722093
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