African identities : race, nation and culture in ethnography, Pan-Africanism and black literatures
This thesis explores the development of Black identities and cultures through representations of Africa. The relationship between Black political theories and concepts of Africa has been significant and reliant on a range of discourses and histories. Through an examination of colonial ethnographic texts and historical writing from the late eighteenth century to the present, as well as pan-Africanist and Black feminist theories, the thesis discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic emerge as signifiers for analyses of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. The thesis provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts in order to further interrogate the poetics of race and sexuality in Black African and diasporic literatures
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1995
1995