Maya Angela Smith

Senegal Abroad

Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780299320508
• ISBN-10: 0299320502
• Artikelnr.: 52907001

Autorenporträt

Maya Angela Smith is an assistant professor of French and Italian studies at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. List of Abbreviations
3. Introduction: Understanding Global Senegalese Identity Formation through
Language and Movement
4. 1 What’s Language Got to Do with It? Language Attitudes and Identity
Formation
5. 2 Speaking while Black: The Quest for Legitimacy in Exclusionary Spaces
6. 3 Neither Here nor There: Reflections on National and Transnational
Belonging
7. 4 Leveraging Language: Multilingualism and Transnational Identity Formation
8. Epilogue
9. Appendices
10. Notes
11. Bibliography
12. Index