Rewriting Exodus : American Futures from du Bois to Obama.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons Series .
- Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rewriting Exodus -- 1. Re-reading America: Barack Obama -- 2. Double Consciousness and the Master/Slave Dialectic: W.E.B. Du Bois -- 3. Excavating the Promised Land: Martin Luther King -- 4. Reclaiming 'Egypt': Malcolm X -- 5. Transcending the Nation: Toni Morrison's Paradise -- 6. Conclusion: Exodus and Return in Post-Katrina New Orleans -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
New ways of thinking about the US relationship with the postcolonial world.