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Author Goyal, Yogita, author.

Title Romance, diaspora, and black Atlantic literature / Yogita Goyal
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 159
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 159.
Contents Introduction: the romance of diaspora -- From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture -- From double consciousness to diaspora: W.E.B. Du Bois and black internationalism -- From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe, and colonial modernity -- From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time -- From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history -- From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity
Summary "Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of the African diaspora, examining a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, Richard Wright, Ama Ata Aidoo and Caryl Phillips. Shifting the center of black diaspora studies by considering Africa as constitutive of black modernity rather than its forgotten past, Goyal argues that it is through the figure of romance that the possibility of diaspora is imagined across time and space. Drawing on literature, political history, and postcolonial theory, this significant addition to the cross-cultural study of literatures will be of interest to scholars of African American studies, African studies, and American literary studies."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-272) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (CambridgeCore, viewed October 19, 2018)
Subject English literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism
English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
African diaspora in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
African literature (English) -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
African diaspora in literature
African literature (English)
American literature -- African American authors
English literature
English literature -- Black authors
Postcolonialism in literature
Ethnische Identität Motiv
Postkoloniale Literatur
Schwarze
Englisch
Literatur
Kulturelle Identität
English-speaking countries
USA
Schwärze
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511770845
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