{"product_id":"the-african-diaspora-and-autobiographics-anatole-anton-9780820438177","title":"The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin","description":"Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach\u003ci\u003e, African Diaspora and Autobiographics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAfrican Diaspora and Autobiographics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anatole Anton,Chinosole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820438170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820438177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 242","brand":"Anatole Anton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517481890047,"sku":"9780820438177","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e5a147b-0b58-48d5-964f-a126cc5423b1.jpg?v=1778731982","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-african-diaspora-and-autobiographics-anatole-anton-9780820438177","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}