TY - GEN digital ID - 131560540 TI - The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000 : Specters of the Shore PY - 2016 SN - 9781137581716 PB - New York Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - Literature KW - African literature KW - Amerindian literature KW - Afrikaans KW - postkolonialisme KW - diaspora KW - fantasy KW - literatuur KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - wereldliteratuur KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Morrison, Toni KW - Reed, Ishmael KW - Walker, Alice KW - Martin, S.I. KW - Evaristo, Bernardine KW - Dabydeen, David KW - Phillips, Caryl KW - Wideman, John Edgar KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland KW - North Africa KW - Africa KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131560540 AB - This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a deep contrast in the distinctive narrative approaches displayed by diverse African diaspora literatures in negotiating the crisis of representing the past. Through a series of close readings of literary fiction, this work examines how the cultural memory of Africa is employed in diverse and specific negotiations of narrative time, in order to engage and shape contemporary identity and citizenship. By addressing the practice of “remembering” Africa, the book argues for the signal importance of the African diaspora’s literary interventions, and locates new paradigms for cultural identity in contemporary times. . ER -