The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820438177)

Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora. Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs, Chinosole traces the political and aesthetic linkages between these early writings and autobiographical literature produced by writers in the twentieth century, namely Richard Wright, Peter Abrahams, George Lamming, Agostinho Neto, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, and Evelyn Williams. African Diaspora and Autobiographics focuses on the affirmative function of African autobiography as a counter-hegemonic response to the history of racist representation and, more important, as a powerful enactment of Black iconography in the struggle for liberation.

Author: Anatole Anton,Chinosole
ISBN-10: 0820438170
ISBN-13: 9780820438177
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2001
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 03/01/2002 pg. 76
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 242