Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of the African diaspora, examining a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, Richard...
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Identifies the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of African diaspora, discussing Du Bois, Achebe, Wright, and Phillips.
Acknowledgements viiiIntroduction: the romance of diaspora 11 From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture 252 From double consciousness to diaspora: W.E.B. Du Bois and black internationalism 593 From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe, and colonial modernity 1044 From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time 1425 From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history 1816 From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity 205Notes 240Index 273
