| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 171 pages) |
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Critical American studies series |
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Critical American studies series.
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| Contents |
"On the clifflike margins of many cultures" : Richard Wright's travels -- The postcolonial as post-Enlightenment : Michelle Cliff and the genealogies of history -- Harlem on my mind : exile and community in Chester Himes's detective fiction -- "A landmark in a foreign land" : Simon Njami's Parisian scenes -- History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory |
| Summary |
In At Home in Diaspora, Wendy W. Walters investigates the work of Chester Himes, Michelle Cliff, and other twentieth-century black international writers who have lived in and written from countries they do not call home. Walters suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Phillips, Caryl -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cliff, Michelle -- Criticism and interpretation
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Njami, Simon, 1962- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Cliff, Michelle fast |
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Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 fast |
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Phillips, Caryl fast |
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Njami, Simon, 1962- fast |
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 fast |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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West Indian literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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Black people -- West Indies -- Intellectual life
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African Americans in literature.
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Internationalism in literature.
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Exiles in literature.
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African diaspora in literature.
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African diaspora.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
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African Americans in literature
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African diaspora in literature
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American fiction -- African American authors
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Black people -- Intellectual life
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Exiles in literature
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Internationalism in literature
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West Indian literature (English) -- Black authors
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West Indies
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005000433 |
| ISBN |
0816644918 |
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9780816644919 |
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0816644926 |
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9780816644926 |
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9780816696802 |
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0816696802 |
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