Confluences : postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and the Black Atlantic
Looks at the prospects for breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. This work emphasizes the confluences among three major theories: postcolonialism, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Signifyin(g), and Paul Gilroy's black Atlantic.
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 177 p. ; 24 cm.
9780820330266, 0820330264
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The Black Atlantic : a bridge between postcolonial and African American literary studies
Postcolonial counter-discourse : Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul
Signifyin(g) : Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison
The Black Atlantic : Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, Alice Walker