Reading Multiple Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity - Hardcover

Avono, Komla M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 166696073X ISBN 13: 9781666960730

Verlag: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

For over a century, the intellectual debate of scholars from African descent has been dominated by the idea of double consciousness spearheaded by W.E.B. DuBois. Interestingly, with many years of vexatious issues of the encounter between the West and Africa, many scholars approached the debate on the basis of the consciousness of the Self and the Other. However, this idea seems to overlook the multiplicities of being black/white. Reading Multiple Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity suggests a different approach to the issue by taking more steps beyond double consciousness. It enriches the debate over race literature and colonization as it offers another way of reading texts. This book proposes that the complexity of postmodern identity is more accurately described by a theory of multiple consciousness. This study arises out of the necessity of a more nuanced theoretical framework for a younger generation of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, a conceptual approach that does justice to the complexity of their experience.

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Komla M. Avono is faculty in the Department of English at the University of Lome, Togo.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 166696073X
• ISBN 13: 9781666960730
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 106
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