Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature

This book identifies the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of African diaspora, discussing Du Bois, Achebe, Wright and Phillips.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the romance of diaspora; 1. From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture; 2. From double consciousness to diaspora: W. E. B. Du Bois and black internationalism; 3. From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe and colonial modernity; 4. From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time; 5. From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history; 6. From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity; Notes.

About the author

Yogita Goyal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature provides a wide-ranging examination of politics in the literature of the African diaspora. Yogita Goyal identifies the creative tensions between romance and realism, drawing on a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including Du Bois, Achebe and Phillips.

Product details

• Authors: Yogita Goyal, Yogita (University of California Goyal
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781107632912
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63291-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies