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Informationen zum Autor Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy! DePaul University. He has previously edited Postcolonial African Cities and has served as co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal! bothpublished byRoutledge. He co-edited The Black Body! Imagining! Writing and (Re)Reading (University of South Africa Press). His new current project is Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (forthcoming! Ashgate). Klappentext Explores the complex roles that race, gender, sexuality and history have played in the formation of African Diaspora identities in the metropole since the 19th century. Zusammenfassung This book explores the complex roles that race, gender, sexuality and history have played in the formation of African Diaspora identities in the metropole since the 19th century. This book was published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. African diaspora and the metropolis: an introduction 2. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life 3. Richard Wright and African francophone intellectuals: a reassessment of the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris 4. American philanthropy and African education: African students in the metropolis in the 1960s 5. ‘In my Senegalese quality and as a compatriot’: Senegalese students in the metropolis and the language of affinity, 1880_1890 6. Paradoxes of diaspora, global identity and human rights: the deportation of Nigerians in Ireland 7. Pulling the coat: postcolonial performativity in Black British women’s drama 8. From mirage to image: Africa on film in the metropolis, 1955-1975
