Africa in Europe
Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
304 pages
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16 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2013
Africa in Europe goes beyond the still-dominant American and transatlantic focus of disapora studies, examining the experiences of black and white Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, and African Americans in Western Europe, Britain, and the former Soviet Union from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. Exploring a huge range of border-crossing experiences across and within Africa and Europe, it examines topics such as ethnic and cultural boundaries, working across the color line, and the limits of solidarity. With contributions from scholars in social history, art history, anthropology, cultural studies, and literary studies, as well from a novelist and a filmmaker, it offers a broad look at the intersection of Africa and Europe at all levels, from family and community to culture and politics.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken
I. Enacting Identity: Individuals, Families and Communities
2. Prince Dido of Didotown and ‘Human Zoos’ in Wilhelmine Germany: Strategies for Self-Representaiton under the Othering Gaze
Albert Gouaffo
3. Schwarze Schmach and métissages contemporains: The Politics and Poetics of Mixed Marriage in a Refugee Family
Eve Rosenhaft
4. ‘Among them Complicit’? Life and Politics in France’s Black Communities, 1919–1939
Jennifer Anne Boittin
5. ‘In this Metropolis of the World We Must Have a Building Worthy of Our Great People’: Race, Empire and Hospitality in Imperial London, 1931–1948
Daniel Whittall
II. Authenticity and Influences: Contexts for Black Cultural Production
6. Féral Benga’s Body
James Smalls
7. ‘Like Another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow
S. Ani Mukherji
8. ‘Coulibaly’ Cosmopolitanism in Moscow: Mamadou Somé Coulibaly and the Surikov Academy Paintings, 1960s–1970s
Paul R. Davis
9. Afro-Italian Literature: From Productive Collaborations to Individual Affirmations
Christopher Hogarth
III. Post-colonial Belonging
10. Of Homecomings and Homesickness: The Question of White Angolans in Post-Colonial Portugal
Cecilie Øien
11. Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Culture and Belonging
Donald Martin Carter
IV. Narratives/Histories
12. Middle Passage Blackness and its Diasporic Discontents: The Case for a Post-War Epistemology
Michelle M. Wright
13. Black and German: Filming Black History and Experience
John Sealey
14. Excavating Diaspora: An Interview Discussing Elleke Boehmer’s Novel Nile Baby
John Masterson with Elleke Boehmer
15. Afterword
Susan Dabney Pennybacker
James Smalls
7. ‘Like Another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow
S. Ani Mukherji
8. ‘Coulibaly’ Cosmopolitanism in Moscow: Mamadou Somé Coulibaly and the Surikov Academy Paintings, 1960s–1970s
Paul R. Davis
9. Afro-Italian Literature: From Productive Collaborations to Individual Affirmations
Christopher Hogarth
III. Post-colonial Belonging
10. Of Homecomings and Homesickness: The Question of White Angolans in Post-Colonial Portugal
Cecilie Øien
11. Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Culture and Belonging
Donald Martin Carter
IV. Narratives/Histories
12. Middle Passage Blackness and its Diasporic Discontents: The Case for a Post-War Epistemology
Michelle M. Wright
13. Black and German: Filming Black History and Experience
John Sealey
14. Excavating Diaspora: An Interview Discussing Elleke Boehmer’s Novel Nile Baby
John Masterson with Elleke Boehmer
15. Afterword
Susan Dabney Pennybacker
Bibliography
Index
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