Pan–African American Literature

Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century

Stephanie Li author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Published:14th Sep '18

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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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. 

"Timely and promising, Pan-African American Literature will make a major and distinctive contribution to African American studies, cultural studies, and American literary studies." -- Michele Elam * author of The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium *

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* Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *
"Essential." * Choice *
"[An] important book." * American Studies in Scandinavia *

ISBN: 9780813592770

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 283g

190 pages