| African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage Contributor(s): Schramm, Katharina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598745131 ISBN-13: 9781598745139 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Africa - West - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism |
| Dewey: 382.44 |
| LCCN: 2010021827 |
| Series: Critical Cultural Heritage |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 319 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice. She examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of significant sites (e.g. the slave forts), events (e.g. Emancipation Day) and discourses (e.g. repatriation) in Ghana to highlight these dynamics. From this, she develops her notions of diaspora, home, homecoming, memory and identity that reflect the complexity and multiple reverberations of these cultural encounters beyond the sphere of roots tourism. |