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Ghosts and Shadows : Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442675322
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ghosts and ShadowsDDC classification:
  • 305.892/8071
LOC classification:
  • F1035.E89 M387 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- MAP -- 1 A Ghost Story -- 2 A Haunted House -- 3 Shadowlands: Diaspora Movements -- 4 Exile, Memory, Identity -- 5 Gender Relations in the Diaspora -- 6 Abyssinian Fundamentalism and Diaspora Mythico-Histories -- 7 More Real Than a Shadow -- 8 Phantoms of Identity and 'Race' -- 9 Ghostly Returns -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Focusing on African diaspora groups that have been virtually ignored in discussions of Canadian multiculturalism, the authors explore the re-creation of communities in exile and the myths of 'homeland' and 'return.'.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- MAP -- 1 A Ghost Story -- 2 A Haunted House -- 3 Shadowlands: Diaspora Movements -- 4 Exile, Memory, Identity -- 5 Gender Relations in the Diaspora -- 6 Abyssinian Fundamentalism and Diaspora Mythico-Histories -- 7 More Real Than a Shadow -- 8 Phantoms of Identity and 'Race' -- 9 Ghostly Returns -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

Focusing on African diaspora groups that have been virtually ignored in discussions of Canadian multiculturalism, the authors explore the re-creation of communities in exile and the myths of 'homeland' and 'return.'.

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