African Identities

This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identitiesdiscusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for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 Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by * Toni Morriso * Alice Walke * Gloria Naylo * Ngugi Wa Thiong' * Chinua Acheb * and V.S. Naipaul For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.