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Table of Contents:

• "On the clifflike margins of many cultures" : Richard Wright's travels
• The postcolonial as post-Enlightenment : Michelle Cliff and the genealogies of history
• Harlem on my mind : exile and community in Chester Himes's detective fiction
• "A landmark in a foreign land" : Simon Njami's Parisian scenes
• History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory.

Author/Creator:

Walters, Wendy W.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

At home in diaspora: Black international writing [by Walters, W.W.]

Related Series:

Critical American studies series

Subjects:

American fiction — African American authors — History and criticism

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 — Criticism and interpretation

Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 — Criticism and interpretation

West Indian literature (English) — Black authors — History and criticism

Phillips, Caryl — Criticism and interpretation

Cliff, Michelle — Criticism and interpretation

Simon, Njami — Criticism and interpretation

Black people — West Indies — Intellectual life

African Americans in literature

Internationalism in literature

Exiles in literature

African diaspora

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984

Phillips, Caryl

Cliff, Michelle

Njami, Simon, 1962-

West Indian literature (English) — Black authors

West Indian literature (English)

American fiction — African American authors

Criticism and interpretation

American fiction

Blacks — Intellectual life

Blacks

West Indies

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-171) and index.

Physical Description:

xxv, 177 pages ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

PS374.N4 W356 2005

ISBNs:

0816644918 (hc, alk. paper)
0816644926 (pb, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005000433

OCLC Numbers:

57452805