- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
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Chapter 1 Introduction -
Chapter 2 Prince Dido of Didotown and ‘Human Zoos’ in Wilhelmine Germany: Strategies for Self-Representation under the Othering Gaze -
Chapter 3 Schwarze Schmach and métissages contemporains: The Politics and Poetics of Mixed Marriage in a Refugee Family -
Chapter 4 ‘Among them Complicit’? Life and Politics in France's Black Communities, 1919–1939 -
Chapter 5 ‘In this Metropolis of the World We Must Have a Building Worthy of Our Great People’: Race, Empire and Hospitality in Imperial London, 1931–1948 -
Chapter 6 Féral Benga's Body -
Chapter 7 ‘Like Another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow -
Chapter 8 ‘Coulibaly’ Cosmopolitanism in Moscow: Mamadou Somé Coulibaly and the Surikov Academy Paintings, 1960s–1970s -
Chapter 9 Afro-Italian Literature: From Productive Collaborations to Individual Affirmations -
Chapter 10 Of Homecomings and Homesickness: The Question of White Angolans in Post-Colonial Portugal -
Chapter 11 Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Culture and Belonging -
Chapter 12 Middle Passage Blackness and its Diasporic Discontents: The Case for a Post-War Epistemology -
Chapter 13 Black and German: Filming Black History and Experience -
Chapter 14 Excavating Diaspora: An Interview Discussing Elleke Boehmer's Novel Nile Baby -
Chapter 15 Afterword - Bibliography
- Index
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Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Chapter 1 Introduction
- Source:
- Africa in Europe
- Author(s):
Eve Rosenhaft
Robbie Aitken
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
The Introduction explores the implications of mobility for the material and imaginative lives of Africans and people of African descent in Europe. It offers an account of the key terms ‘transnational’ and ‘practice’. It suggests some common themes of the chapters, placing an emphasis on how the case studies exemplify the ways in which border-crossing brings the relationship between public and private under stress, so that transgressive sexuality often plays a part in the lives and political imaginations of their transnational subjects. It also discusses the challenges to historical narration presented by the transnational approach and by subjects whose lives are lived in many places.
Keywords: transnational studies, practice, Black European studies, historiography, sexuality
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
-
Chapter 1 Introduction -
Chapter 2 Prince Dido of Didotown and ‘Human Zoos’ in Wilhelmine Germany: Strategies for Self-Representation under the Othering Gaze -
Chapter 3 Schwarze Schmach and métissages contemporains: The Politics and Poetics of Mixed Marriage in a Refugee Family -
Chapter 4 ‘Among them Complicit’? Life and Politics in France's Black Communities, 1919–1939 -
Chapter 5 ‘In this Metropolis of the World We Must Have a Building Worthy of Our Great People’: Race, Empire and Hospitality in Imperial London, 1931–1948 -
Chapter 6 Féral Benga's Body -
Chapter 7 ‘Like Another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow -
Chapter 8 ‘Coulibaly’ Cosmopolitanism in Moscow: Mamadou Somé Coulibaly and the Surikov Academy Paintings, 1960s–1970s -
Chapter 9 Afro-Italian Literature: From Productive Collaborations to Individual Affirmations -
Chapter 10 Of Homecomings and Homesickness: The Question of White Angolans in Post-Colonial Portugal -
Chapter 11 Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Culture and Belonging -
Chapter 12 Middle Passage Blackness and its Diasporic Discontents: The Case for a Post-War Epistemology -
Chapter 13 Black and German: Filming Black History and Experience -
Chapter 14 Excavating Diaspora: An Interview Discussing Elleke Boehmer's Novel Nile Baby -
Chapter 15 Afterword - Bibliography
- Index
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