African homecoming : Pan-African ideology and contested heritage / Katharina Schramm.
Schramm, Katharina.
2010
G155.G4 S34 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
African homecoming : Pan-African ideology and contested heritage / Katharina Schramm.
Author
Schramm, Katharina.
ISBN
9781598745146 (pbk. : alk. paper)
159874514X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781598745139 (alk. paper)
1598745131 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Walnut Creek, Calif. : left Coast Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
G155.G4 S34 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
382/.44
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
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1. Introduction: African Diasporic Homecoming and the Ambivalence of Belonging
2. The Layout of an Ideology: Claiming the African Heritage in Early Pan-Africanism
3. Early Connections: Pan-Africanism and Ghana's Independence
4. History Cast in Stone: Representing the Slave Trade at Ghana's Forts and Castles
5. Confronting the Past: Touring Cape Coast Castle
6. Pilgrimage Tourism: Homecoming as a Spiritual Journey
7. Emancipation Day: A Route to Understanding Homecoming
8. "The Re-Emergence of African Civilization
Uniting the African Family": Claiming a Common Heritage in PANAFEST
9. Pan-Africanism as a Resource: Contested Relationships of Belonging in the Practice of Homecoming
10. Conclusion.

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