African Identities

<p>This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.<br> Using literary texts autobiography ethnography and historical documents <em>African Identities</em> discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin as a cultural whole or as a complicated political problematic emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity nationhood and racial difference.<br> Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts including novels by:<br> * Toni Morrison<br> * Alice Walker<br> * Gloria Naylor<br> * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o<br> * Chinua Achebe<br> * and V.S. Naipaul.<br> For anyone interested in literature history anthropology political writing feminist or cultural analysis this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.</p>