TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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.
AB  - "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.
T1  - African homecoming :Pan-African ideology and contested heritage /
DA  - c2010.
CY  - Walnut Creek, Calif. :
AU  - Schramm, Katharina.
CN  - G155.G4
CN  - G155.G4
PB  - left Coast Press,
PP  - Walnut Creek, Calif. :
PY  - c2010.
ID  - 428679
KW  - Heritage tourism
KW  - Heritage tourism
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - African diaspora.
KW  - Pan-Africanism.
SN  - 9781598745146 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 159874514X (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 9781598745139 (alk. paper)
SN  - 1598745131 (alk. paper)
TI  - African homecoming :Pan-African ideology and contested heritage /
ER  -