ISBN:
9781628461558
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 270 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Anywhere but here
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
Blacks Intellectual life
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
African diaspora History
;
Transnationalism History
;
America Relations
;
Africa Relations
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Afrika
;
Schwarze
;
Intellektueller
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Transnationale Politik
Abstract:
"Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on the cross-cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul Gilroy's prominent thesis in The Black Atlantic and posits arguments beyond The Black Atlantic's traditional organization and symbolism. These essays expand categories and suggest patterns that have united individuals and communities across the African diaspora. They highlight the stories of people who, from their intercultural and often marginalized positions, challenged the status quo, created international alliances, cultivated expertise and cultural fluency abroad, as well as crafted physical and intellectual spaces for their self-expression and dignity to thrive. What, for example, connects the eighteenth-century Igbo author Olaudah Equiano with 1940s literary figure Richard Wright; nineteenth-century expatriate anthropologist Antenor Fermin with 1960s Haitian émigrés to the Congo; Japanese Pan-Asianists and Southern Hemisphere Aboriginal activists with Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey; or Angela Davis with artists of the British Black Arts Movement, Ingrid Pollard and Zarina Bhimji? They are all part of a mapping the reaches across and beyond the boundaries typically associated with the 'Black Atlantic'"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: The Black Atlantic Revisited : Methodological Considerations
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Writing Against the Grain : Anténor Firmin and the Refutation of Nineteenth-Century European Race Science
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Activist in Exile: Jose da Natividade Saldanha, Free Man of Color in the Tropical Atlantic
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Developmentalism, Tanzania, and the Arusha Declaration : Perspectives of an Observing Participant
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II. Crafting Connections : Strategic and Ideological Alliances ; Garvey in Oz : The International Black Influence on Australian Aboriginal Political Activism
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Africa for Africans and Asia for Asians : Japanese Pan-Asianism and Its Impact in the Post World War I Era
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Convenient Partnerships? : African American Civil Rights Leaders and the East German Dictatorship
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III. Cultural Mastery in Foreign Spaces : Evolving Visions of Home and Identity ; Abdias Nascimento : Afro-Brazilian Painting Connections Across the Diaspora
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"Of Remarkable Omens in My Favour" : Olaudah Equiano, Two Identities, and the Cultivation of a Literary Economic Exchange
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Ruptures and Disrupters : The Photographic Landscapes of Ingrid Pollard and Zarina Bhimji as Revisionist History of Great Britain
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From Port-au-Prince to Kinshasa : A Haitian Journey from the Americas to Africa
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