1. Introduction: African Diasporic Homecoming and the Ambivalence of Belonging -- 2. The Layout of an Ideology: Claiming the African Heritage in Early Pan-Africanism -- 3. Early Connections: Pan-Africanism and Ghana's Independence -- 4. History Cast in Stone: Representing the Slave Trade at Ghana's Forts and Castles -- 5. Confronting the Past: Touring Cape Coast Castle -- 6. Pilgrimage Tourism: Homecoming as a Spiritual Journey -- 7. Emancipation Day: A Route to Understanding Homecoming -- 8. "The Re-Emergence of African Civilization -- Uniting the African Family": Claiming a Common Heritage in PANAFEST -- 9. Pan-Africanism as a Resource: Contested Relationships of Belonging in the Practice of Homecoming -- 10. Conclusion
Summary
"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 (slave forts), events (Emancipation Day) and discourses (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."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index
