African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781598745146)

African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice. She examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of significant sites (e.g. the slave forts), events (e.g. Emancipation Day) and discourses (e.g. repatriation) in Ghana to highlight these dynamics. From this, she develops her notions of diaspora, home, homecoming, memory and identity that reflect the complexity and multiple reverberations of these cultural encounters beyond the sphere of roots tourism.

Author: Katharina Schramm
ISBN-10: 159874514X
ISBN-13: 9781598745146
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.08w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2011