African Diaspora & Autobiographics

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African Diaspora & Autobiographics

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2001 Peter Lang Publishing Inc., NY, 187pp
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Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse authobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora. Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth and nineteenth century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs, Chinosole traces the political and aesthetic linkages between these early writings and autobiographical literature produced by writers in the twentieth century, namely Richard Write, Peter Abrahams, George Lamming, Agostinho Neto, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, and Evelyn Williams.

African Diaspora and Autobiographics focuses on the affirmative function of Afrkan autobiography as a counter-hegemonic response to the history of racist representation and, more important, as a powerful enactment of Black iconography in the struggle for liberation.

Chinosole, is Associate Professor of Women Studies at San Francisco State University. She was the first acting dean of the College of Ethnic Studies and a founding faculty member of the Black Studies department at SFSU.