Identifier
etd-11062004-213102
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
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.
Date
2004
Document Availability at the Time of Submission
Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.
Recommended Citation
Harris, Anita Louise, "Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora" (2004). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 141.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/141
Committee Chair
John Lowe
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.141