Research Catalog

Title

At home in diaspora : Black international writing / Wendy W. Walters.

Author

Walters, Wendy W.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xxv, 177 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Critical American studies series

Uniform Title

Critical American studies series.

Subjects

• African Americans in literature
• Exiles in literature
• Njami, Simon, 1962- > Criticism and interpretation
• African diaspora
• Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation
• Phillips, Caryl > Criticism and interpretation
• West Indian literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
• American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
• Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 > Criticism and interpretation
• Internationalism in literature
• Blacks > West Indies > Intellectual life
• Cliff, Michelle > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-171) and index.

Contents

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

ISBN

• 0816644918 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0816644926 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005000433
• 9780816644926

OCLC

• ocm57452805
• SCSB-5204334

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Columbia University Libraries