Race and identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father a collection of critical essays
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- ISBN: 9780773421486 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0773421483 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (306 p.) - Publisher: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2012.
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General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.10.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Michael A. Zeitler -- A knot to bind our experiences together : storytelling in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father and critical race theory / Erin Ponton Fiero -- No apology for the show : performance and oratorical self-creation in Obama, Douglass, and Ellison / Granville Ganter -- Slumming and self-making in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / David Mastey -- In search of my father's garden : Kenya as the focal point for the study of a new kind of narrative in African American autobiography / Claire Joly -- An image of Africa : race and identity in Barack Obama's rewriting of Conrad's 'Heart of darkness' / Michael Zeitler -- Obama, Ellison, and the search for identity / Rita Saylors -- Voices of his mothers : feminist interventions and identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Letizia Guglielmo -- Queer coherence : loss and hybridity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Patricia Harris Gillies -- The search for race and masculine identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Dolores Sisco -- Beyond race : racial transcendence in Jean Toomer's Cane and Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Charlene T. Evans -- Glorious burdens : a Lacanian reading of racial passing, inheritance, and paternal desire in Obama's Dreams from my father / Nicholas Powers. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Obama, Barack Social Science SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
Genre: | Electronic books. |