Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the romance of diaspora
- 1 From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture
- 2 From double consciousness to diaspora: W. E. B. Du Bois and black internationalism
- 3 From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe, and colonial modernity
- 4 From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time
- 5 From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history
- 6 From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the romance of diaspora
- 1 From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture
- 2 From double consciousness to diaspora: W. E. B. Du Bois and black internationalism
- 3 From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe, and colonial modernity
- 4 From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time
- 5 From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history
- 6 From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010