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At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing »

Authors: Wendy W. Walters
ISBN-13: 9780816644926, ISBN-10: 0816644926
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Wendy W. Walters

Book Synopsis

Looking at 20th-century African American, Caribbean, and Black European literature, Walters (literature, Emerson College) focuses on the link between displacement and narrative. Displacement, she suggests, creates a distant that allows writers to encode critiques of their homelands, to construct new homelands, and to envision new communities. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Introduction : diaspora consciousness and literary expression
Pt. I	The fact of slavery
1	"On the clifflike margins of many cultures" : Richard Wright's travels	3
2	The postcolonial as post-enlightenment : Michelle Cliff and the genealogies of history	27
Pt. II	From discrimination and insult to homes in diaspora
3	Harlem on my mind : exile and community in Chester Himes's detective fiction	59
4	"A landmark in a foreign land" : Simon Njami's Parisian scenes	86
5	History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory	111