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"Toubab la!" : literary representations of mixed-race characters in the African diaspora
- Title
- "Toubab la!" : literary representations of mixed-race characters in the African diaspora / by Ginette Curry.
- Author
- Bâ-Curry, Ginette.
- Publication
- Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
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- Description
- viii, 470 p.; 21 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Literary representations of mixed-race characters in the African diaspora
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-452) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. The United States. James McBride's The color of water (1996) : a journey beyond Black and white ; Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) : the surviving canary ; Rebecca Walker's Black white and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self (2001) : the chameleon experience -- Part II. The French Caribbean islands. Mayotte Capécia's I am a Martinican woman (1948) : "My father is Black, my mother is brown, and I, am I white?" (Martinican riddle) ; Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou (1961) : the anti-Narcissus ; Raphaël Confiant's Ravines de devant-jour (1993) : ethnostereotypes in Martinique -- Part III. The British Caribbean islands. The racial paradox of Derek Walcott in What the twilight says (1970), Derek Walcott: another life (1973) and Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) ; Michelle Cliff's Abeng (1995) ; a near-white Jamaican woman's quest for identity -- Part IV. Europe. Marie N'Diaye's Among family (1997) : a desperate search for Caucasian identity ; Zadie Smith's White teeth (2000) : the concept of Englishness in the 21st century ; Bernardine Evaristo's Lara (1997) : transculturality in England : oyinbo, whitey, morena, nig nog, nigra! -- Part V. Africa. Monique Ilboudo's Le mal de peau (2001) : colonization and forced hybridity ; Bessie Head's A woman alone : autobiographical writings (1990) : white-on-Black and Black-on-Black racial oppression in southern Africa ; Abdoulaye Sadji's Nini, mulâtresse du Sénégal (1947) : "toubab la!"
- Call Number
- Sc D 10-1547
- ISBN
- 9781847182319
- 1847182313
- LCCN
- 2007531610
- OCLC
- 153576109
- Author
- Bâ-Curry, Ginette.
- Title
- "Toubab la!" : literary representations of mixed-race characters in the African diaspora / by Ginette Curry.
- Imprint
- Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-452) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 10-1547