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2) Literary and sociopolitical writings of the Black diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Iberian encounter and exchange 475-1755 volume Volume 3
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of KwaZulu Natal Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"South African identities, as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel, are not homogeneous, but fractured and often conflicted: African, Afrikaner, 'colored,' English, and Indian. None can be regarded as rooted or pure, whatever essentialist claims the members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them, this study argues, are deeply divided and have arisen, directly or indirectly,...
Author
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois's double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia,...