African Identities

Taylor & Francis

Kanneh locates Black identity in relation to Africa and discovers how histories connected with the domination, imagination, and interpretation of Africa are constructive of a range of political and theoretic parameters around race. > \nThis fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.\n Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference.\n Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by:\n * Toni Morrison\n * Alice Walker\n * Gloria Naylor\n * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o\n * Chinua Achebe\n * and V.S. Naipaul.\n For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of z