| The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin Contributor(s): Anton, Anatole (Editor), Chinosole (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820438170 ISBN-13: 9780820438177 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $51.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809.889 |
| LCCN: 98-53351 |
| Series: San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 187 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora. Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs, Chinosole traces the political and aesthetic linkages between these early writings and autobiographical literature produced by writers in the twentieth century, namely Richard Wright, Peter Abrahams, George Lamming, Agostinho Neto, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, and Evelyn Williams. African Diaspora and Autobiographics focuses on the affirmative function of African autobiography as a counter-hegemonic response to the history of racist representation and, more important, as a powerful enactment of Black iconography in the struggle for liberation. |