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Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.
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Foreword by Beverley Butler Prologue: Confronting the Past (Richard Wright) 1 Introduction: Homecoming and the Ambivalence of Belonging 2 The Layout of an Ideology: Claiming the African Heritage in Early Panafricanism 3 Early Connections: Ghana's Independence 4 History Cast in Stone: Representing the Slave Trade at Ghana's Forts and Castles 5 Confronting the Past: Touring Cape Coast Castle 6 Pilgrimage Tourism: Homecoming as a Spiritual Journey 7 Emancipation Day: A Route to Understanding Homecoming 8 "The Re-Emergence of African Civilization": Claiming a Common Heritage In PANAFEST 9 Pan-Africanism as a Ressource: Contested Relationships of Belonging in the Practice of Homecoming 10 Conclusion References Index About the Author
About the author
Katharina Schramm is a lecturer in anthropology at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the Free University in Berlin. She has written a number of articles on issues of tourism, memory and race. She is co-editor of Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (Berghahn, 2009). Her current research focuses on the interface between diaspora-identity, new genetics and citizenship.
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Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.
