Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Grantor

English

Year dc:date.available

2004

Author dc:creator

• Harris, Anita Louise

• orisha
• pan african
• black film
• return migration
• slave narrative
• african diaspora

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Identifier

etd-11062004-213102
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/141

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.lsu.edu:gradschool_dissertations-1140