African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Based on a conference which took place in Sandton, Johannesburg from 14-15 July 2008., 346 p., This conference is the first of three conferences on the African diaspora with respect to the returnee phenomenon of 'Back to Africa'. Contents: volume 1. Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities -- volume 2. The ideology and practice of the African returnee phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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111 p, Examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Negritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Negritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure.
People of African descent from the Caribbean and the Americas have been migrating to Africa since the eighteenth century. This article examines the process of identity formation among contemporary Diaspora Africans
Quirke,Ellen (Author), Potter,Robert B. (Author), and Conway,Dennis (Author)
Format:
Internet resource
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Reading, England: Geography, the University of Reading
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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37 p., Whilst research on second-generation return migration to the Caribbean from the UK has identified transnational practices among a cohort of individuals, there is considerable scope for further research examining transnational practices, inter-generational transfers and intention to return among the 1.5-, second- and third-generation Black Caribbean community in situ in the UK.
