TY - BOOK AU - Li, Stephanie TI - Pan-African American literature: signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century SN - 081359281X U1 - PS153.N5 L5 2018 PY - 2018///] CY - New Brunswick PB - Rutgers University Press KW - University of South Alabama KW - 2000-2099 KW - American literature - African American authors - History and criticism KW - Black people - Race identity - America KW - Black people in literature - 21st century KW - Noirs am�ericains dans la litt�erature KW - Africains - Pays �etrangers, dans la litt�erature KW - Personnes noires dans la litt�erature - 21e si�ecle KW - LITERARY CRITICISM - General KW - African Americans in literature KW - African diaspora in literature KW - American literature - African American authors KW - Black people in literature KW - Black people - Race identity KW - Literatur KW - Schwarze KW - Ethnische Identit�at KW - AMERICA N1 - eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Literary Reference Center Collection Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2019) N2 - Article Abstract: The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1621770 ER -