Literary Pan-Africanism

"In a critical, well-researched, and illuminating analysis of history and literature, this study highlights the dynamics of the relationship between Africans and African-Americans since the original separation of the Middle Passage. The study emerges at a timely phase, as America struggles with its racial heritage, its ethnic future, and multiculturalism, and as people of African descent create new contexts for defining identity in a nation that struggles to embrace Africans who have arrived, this time, as voluntary migrants."--BOOK JACKET.

Christel N. Temple is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Acknowledgments

vii

Chapter 1 Defining Literary Pan-Africanism

3

(22)

The African Vision of the African-American Experience

15

(10)

Chapter 2 Historical Premises of African and African-American Relationships

25

(44)

African Consciousness of the Enslavement Experience from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

25

(22)

Conflicting European and African Worldviews: Manipulated Communication

31

(3)

Myths and Resistance

34

(7)

Pathology of the Enslavement Trade

41

(3)

Healing and Pan-Africanism

44

(2)

Literary Implications of Enslavement History

46

(1)

Twentieth-Century African and Trans-Atlantic Relations: History, Ideology, and Concept

47

(3)

Historiography and Dialectics of the Relationship

49

(1)

Late Nineteenth-Century Connections

50

(13)

Early Twentieth-Century Pan-African Organization

53

(2)

Marcus Garvey and Pan-Africanism since the 1920's

55

(2)

Problems: America's Mystique and Divide and Conquer

57

(2)

The Role of Organizations: Post-Independence and Beyond

59

(1)

The Role of Conferences: Post-Independence and Beyond

60

(2)

Changes in Pan-Africanism

62

(1)

Getting More Familiar: Africans on African-Americans

63

(6)

Chapter 3 Literary History and Foundations: Black Orpheus and Critical Paradigms

69

(26)

The Journal Tradition in West Africa

70

(2)

Black Orpheus

72

(17)

Concepts of Pan-Africanism and Regeneration in West African Literature

89

(6)

Chapter 4 Truth or Satire: Wole Soyinka and Black America

95

(24)

Soyinka's Complete Vision of the African-American Experience

95

(9)

Literary Criticism on Joe Golder

104

(11)

Coming to Terms with Discrepancies Regarding Joe Golder

115

(4)

Chapter 5 "They Have Forgotten!": Anna Ata Aidoo Brings Strangers Back Home

119

(28)

Aidoo: A Pan-African Mediator

124

(13)

Anowa and Other Works by Aidoo

137

(6)

Kinship and Integration in Ghanaian Culture

143

(4)

Chapter 6 Recognition and Belonging: Kofi Awoonor and Ayi Kwei Armah's Pan-African Regeneration

147

(34)

Kofi Awoonor's Comes the Voyager At Last

150

(11)

The Concept of Time in Comes the Voyager At Last

156

(2)

Regeneration in Comes the Voyager At Last

158

(1)

Pan-Africanism in Comes the Voyager At Last

159

(2)

Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising

161

(20)

The Epitome of Regeneration

164

(2)

Ast: Positive Icon of Armah's Vision of the African-American Experience

166

(1)

Pan-Africanism in Osiris Rising

167

(11)

Armah's Contribution to Literary Pan-Africanism

178

(3)

Conclusion

181

(2)

Bibliography

183

(12)

Index

195

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