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Author:

Walters, Wendy W.

Title:

At home in diaspora : Black international writing / Wendy W. Walters.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxv, 177 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
Himes, Chester B.,--1909---Criticism and interpretation.
Phillips, Caryl--Criticism and interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation.
Simon, Njami--Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
West Indian literature (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Blacks--West Indies--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature
Internationalism in literature.
Exiles in literature.
African diaspora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-171) and index.

Contents:

History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory. 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.

Series:

Critical American studies series

ISBN:

9780816644926 (pb : alk. paper)
0816644926 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816644919 (hc : alk. paper)
0816644918 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57452805

LCCN:

2005000433

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)