Michelle M Wright

Becoming Black

Creating Identity in the African Diaspora

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332114
• ISBN-10: 0822332116
• Artikelnr.: 21556655

Autorenporträt

Michelle M. Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a coeditor of Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West 1
1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other
> 2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar
Senghor, and Aime Cesaire 66
3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought
and the Black (Male) Subject
> 4. How I Got Ovah: Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female
Subject 136
5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris
> Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak? 229
Notes 233
Bibliography 261
Index 269