عنوان

African homecoming :

(Number (ISBN

1598745131 (hardcover : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

159874514X (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9781598745139 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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9781598745146 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Number

b516768

Title Proper

African homecoming :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Pan-African ideology and contested heritage /

First Statement of Responsibility

Katharina Schramm

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Walnut Creek, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

left Coast Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2010

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

319 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical cultural heritage series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Prologue: Confronting the past -- Introduction: African diasporic homecoming and the ambivalence of belonging -- The layout of an ideology : claiming the African heritage in early Pan-Africanism -- Early connections : Pan-Africanism and Ghana's Independence -- History cast in stone : representing the slave trade at Ghana's forts and castles -- Confronting the past : touring Cape Coast castle -- Pilgrimage tourism : homecoming as a spiritual journey -- Emancipation day : a route to understanding homecoming -- "The re-emergence of African civilization : uniting the African family" : claiming a common heritage in PANAFEST -- Pan-Africanism as a resource : contested relationships of belonging in the practice of homecoming

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Text of Note

"African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the Pan-African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice. She examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of significant sites (slave forts), events (Emancipation Day) and discourses (repatriation) in Ghana to highlight these dynamics. From this, she develops her notions of diaspora, home, homecoming, memory and identity that reflect the complexity and multiple reverberations of these cultural encounters beyond the sphere of roots tourism."--Book jacket

Text of Note

"African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the Pan-African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice. She examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of significant sites (slave forts), events (Emancipation Day) and discourses (repatriation) in Ghana to highlight these dynamics. From this, she develops her notions of diaspora, home, homecoming, memory and identity that reflect the complexity and multiple reverberations of these cultural encounters beyond the sphere of roots tourism."--Book jacket

African diaspora

Cultural property-- Political aspects-- Ghana

Cultural property-- Social aspects-- Ghana

Heritage tourism-- Political aspects-- Ghana

Heritage tourism-- Social aspects-- Ghana

Pan-Africanism

Slave trade-- Africa, West-- History

Class number

Book number

Schramm, Katharina

Electronic name

[Book]

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