Beschreibung
The world of African America extends throughout the
northern, central, southern and insular parts of the
American continent. The essays included in this volume take
the creation of that world as a single object of study,
tracing significant routes and contacts, building
comparisons and contrasts. They thus participate in the
reworking of traditional approaches to the study of history,
the critique of literature and culture, and the production
of knowledge. All are engaged in an effort to locate the
African American experience within a wider pan-African
vision that links the colonial with the postcolonial, the
past with the present, the African with the Western.
Mapping African America sketches lines that, far
from limiting our geography, extend our knowledge of the
Africanist influence on and their participation in what is
generally called “Western” culture. This creative
challenge
to traditional disciplines will not only enhance the
reader’s understanding of African American Studies but will
also help forge links with other academic fields of inquiry.
Maria Diedrich is Professor of American
Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster.
Justin Tally is Associate Professor of American Studies at
the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain).
