African diasporas in the New and Old Worlds : consciousness and imagination / edited by Geneviève Fabre and Klaus Benesch.

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Other Authors: Benesch, Klaus, 1958-, Fabre, Geneviève.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 69.
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Table of Contents:
  • THINKING DIASPORA
  • The uses of 'diaspora' / Brent Hayes Edwards
  • Against race: yes, but at what cost? / David Palumbo-Liu
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Signifying monkey: a diasporic critical myth / Michel Feith
  • DIASPORIC HISTORICAL SITES
  • Cultural migrations: a time- & -space outline of black Atlantic evangelical protestantism / Sylvia Frey
  • French revolutionary song in the Haitian revolution 1789-1804 / Sujaya Dhanvantari
  • The wings of Ethiopia: the Caribbean diaspora and Pan-African projects from John Brown Russwurm to George Padmore / Winston James
  • LITERARY WRITINGS OF THE DIASPORA
  • Modernity and historical consciousness in the "new negro" novel at the Nadir (1892-1903) / Carla L. Peterson
  • Notes from underground: William Demby's The catacombs and the diasporic roots of African-American modernism / Klaus Benesch
  • The conundrum of home: the diasporic imagination in The nature of blood by Caryl Phillips / Kathie Birat
  • Modernism in the black diaspora: Langston Hughes and the "broken cubes of Picasso" / Seth Moglen
  • VISUAL ART AND PERFORMANCE
  • Du Bois, The crisis, and images of Africa and the diaspora / Amy Kirschke
  • "Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands": Ethiopianism, Egyptomania, and the arts of the Harlem Renaissance / Iris Schmeisser
  • Carnaval of Los Congos in Portobelo, Panama: feathered men and queens / Judith Bettelheim
  • POSTSCRIPT
  • The middle passage: a visual narrative / Tom Feelings
  • APPENDIX
  • The power and place of black diasporan autobiography: an annotated bibliography of autobiographies / Phyllis B. Bischof.