| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Harris, Anita Louise
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| Author's Email Address |
alharri@lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-11062004-213102 |
| Title |
Pan African Narratives: Sites of Resistance in the Black Diaspora |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
| Department |
English |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| John Lowe |
Committee Chair |
| Femi Euba |
Committee Member |
| Helen Regis |
Committee Member |
| Miles Richardson |
Committee Member |
| Nkashama Ngandu |
Dean's Representative |
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| Keywords |
- orisha
- pan african
- black film
- return migration
- slave narrative
- african diaspora
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| Date of Defense |
2004-10-27 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
Africa as a point of reference for Africans dispersed from her shores and their descendants in the Diaspora has perpetuated discourse of longing and ambivalence. For centuries these various sentiments have emerged in Black literary expressions. The quest of this study is to advance Black narrative tradition by proposing a theoretical framework informed by these constructs and predicaments to establish a genre of literature referred to here as Pan African narratives. This work looks at Black response to the dilemma of dispersal and dislocation in the Diaspora from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. More specifically, it examines the emergence of a literary genre at the juncture of the African diaspora and Pan African paradigms. Building on the legacy of slave and migration narratives, Pan African narratives reveal manifestations of Black solidarity and resistance to oppressive forces.
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