Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Context and Criticism
In a critical, well-researched, and illuminating analysis of history and literature, this study highlights the dynamics of the relationship between Africans and African-Americans since the original separation of the Middle Passage. The study emerges at a timely phase, as America struggles with its racial heritage, its ethnic future, and multiculturalism, and as people of African descent create new contexts for defining identity in a nation that struggles to embrace Africans who have arrived,...
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In a critical, well-researched, and illuminating analysis of history and literature, this study highlights the dynamics of the relationship between Africans and African-Americans since the original separation of the Middle Passage. The study emerges at a timely phase, as America struggles with its racial heritage, its ethnic future, and multiculturalism, and as people of African descent create new contexts for defining identity in a nation that struggles to embrace Africans who have arrived, this time, as voluntary migrants.
Ch. 1Defining literary pan-Africanism3The African vision of the African-American experience15Ch. 2Historical premises of African and African-American relationships25African consciousness of the enslavement experience from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries25Twentieth-century African and trans-Atlantic relations : history, ideology, and concept47Late nineteenth-century connections50Getting more familiar : Africans on African-Americans63Ch. 3Literary history and foundations : Black Orpheus and critical paradigms69The journal tradition in West Africa70Black Orpheus72Concepts of Pan-Africanism and regeneration in West African literature89Ch. 4Truth or satire : Wole Soyinka and black America95Soyinka's complete vision of the African-American experience95Literary criticism on Joe Golder104Coming to terms with discrepancies regarding Joe Golder115Ch. 5"They have forgotten!" : Ama Ata Aidoo brings strangers back home119Aidoo : a pan-African mediator124Anowa and other works by Aidoo137Kinship and integration in Ghanaian culture143Ch. 6Recognition and belonging : Kofi Awoonor and Ayi Kwei Armah's pan-African regeneration147Kofi Awoonor's Comes the voyager at last150Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising161
