Becoming Black by Michelle M Wright
A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany
“An important book for scholars of the African diaspora, Becoming Black puts the word ‘diaspora’ back into African American studiesThere are bold new conversations here.”—Sharon Holland, author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
“Becoming Black yields a complex and differentiated understanding of Enlightenment discourses on race and offers a framework for comparing the different models of subjecthood that underwrote the varying histories of colonialism and slavery. It is unique in that it brings Afro-German and Afro-French writings into dialogue with Afro-British and African American texts. There is no existing study of the African diaspora that brings such a range of national traditions together.”—Madhu Dubey, author of Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism
“Becoming Black yields a complex and differentiated understanding of Enlightenment discourses on race and offers a framework for comparing the different models of subjecthood that underwrote the varying histories of colonialism and slavery. It is unique in that it brings Afro-German and Afro-French writings into dialogue with Afro-British and African American texts. There is no existing study of the African diaspora that brings such a range of national traditions together.”—Madhu Dubey, author of Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism
Michelle M. Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a coeditor of Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822332886 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822332884 |
| Title | Becoming Black |
| Author | Michelle M Wright |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press Books |
| Year published | 2004-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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