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The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000

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Specters of the Shore, Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

ISBN: 1137584858
ISBN 13: 9781137584854
Autor: Kamali, Leila
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 314 S., 3 s/w Illustr., 2 farbige Illustr., 314 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2016
Auflage: 1/2017
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a deep contrast in the distinctive narrative approaches displayed by diverse African diaspora literatures in negotiating the crisis of representing the past. Through a series of close readings of literary fiction, this work examines how the cultural memory of Africa is employed in diverse and specific negotiations of narrative time, in order to engage and shape contemporary identity and citizenship. By addressing the practice of „remembering“ Africa, the book argues for the signal importance of the African diaspora’s literary interventions, and locates new paradigms for cultural identity in contemporary times.

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Leila Kamali is Lecturer in American and English Literature at King's College London, UK.

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