Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century / Stephanie Li.
Publication details: New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)ISBN:- 081359281X
- 9780813592817
- University of South Alabama
- 2000-2099
- American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
- Black people - Race identity - America
- Black people in literature - 21st century
- Noirs am�ericains dans la litt�erature
- Africains - Pays �etrangers, dans la litt�erature
- Personnes noires dans la litt�erature - 21e si�ecle
- LITERARY CRITICISM - General
- African Americans in literature
- African diaspora in literature
- American literature - African American authors
- Black people in literature
- Black people - Race identity
- Literatur
- Schwarze
- Ethnische Identit�at
- AMERICA
- PS153.N5 L5 2018
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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.