| Description |
xv, 193 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 180 |
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Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,
0069-9624 ; no. 180.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Africa and America : a question of continuities, cleavage, and dreams deferred / Femi Ojo-Ade -- W.E.B. Du Bois : the man and his vision of Africa for Africans / F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam -- Langston Hughes and Africa / Eddie Omotayo Asgill -- Richard Wright : a dubious legacy / Chimalum Nwankwo -- Claude McKay : the tragic solitude of an exiled son of Africa / Femi Ojo-Ade -- Another African artist's wayward thoughts on Eugene Redmond's poetry / Tess Onwueme -- Branches of the same tree : African and African-American poetry / Tanure Ojaide -- Notions and nuances : Africa in the works of James Baldwin / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Reviewing Gloria Naylor : toward a Neo-African critique / Vincent O. Odamtten -- Creative African memory : some oral sources of Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" / Ousseynou Traore -- The circle of meaning : Paule Marshall, modernism, and the masks of history / Simon Gikandi -- Homesick and eurocentric? : Alice Walker's Africa / Nwikali Kieti -- "I is" : Toni Morrison, the past, and Africa / Chimalum Nwankwo -- Afterward : what's in a name? / Femi Ojo-Ade. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Appreciation -- Africa.
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African Americans in literature.
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Africa -- In literature.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature By Black persons |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Ojo-Ade, Femi.
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| ISBN |
0313264759 alkaline paper |
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