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2. Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. INTRODUCTION 1
  4. 1. Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement 30
  5. 2. Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City 56
  6. 3. The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu 83
  7. 4. Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 108
  8. 5. Becoming His Own Father: Obama’s Dreams from My Father 134
  9. Conclusion: Blackness Now 161
  10. Acknowledgments 169
  11. Notes 171
  12. Works Cited 177
  13. Index 183
  14. About the Author 187
Pan–African American Literature
This chapter is in the book Pan–African American Literature
https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813592817-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. INTRODUCTION 1
  4. 1. Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement 30
  5. 2. Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City 56
  6. 3. The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu 83
  7. 4. Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 108
  8. 5. Becoming His Own Father: Obama’s Dreams from My Father 134
  9. Conclusion: Blackness Now 161
  10. Acknowledgments 169
  11. Notes 171
  12. Works Cited 177
  13. Index 183
  14. About the Author 187
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