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Africanism [ˈæfrɪkəˌnɪzəm] n something characteristic of Africa or Africans, esp a characteristic feature of an African language when introduced into a non-African language How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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(82) Community
historian Richard Moore, a former Communist member of the radical
African Blood Brotherhood during the 1920s and owner of the Frederick
Douglass bookstore in Harlem, indicated the significance of Du
Bois' Pan Africanism and his "concept of race," rooted in
a "social heritage of slavery .
What Africanism became for, and how it functioned in, the literary
imagination is of paramount interest because it may be possible to
discover, through a closer look at literary 'blackness,' the nature
--even the cause--of literary 'whiteness. By her definition, Africanism in White literature functions as a
lens for "the connotative and denotative blackness that African
peoples have come to signify, as well as the entire range of views,
assumptions, readings and misreadings that accompany Eurocentric
learning about these people" (p. |
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