Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the romance of diaspora; 1. From domestic allegory to imperial romance: Pauline Hopkins and racial mixture; 2. From double consciousness to diaspora: W. E. B. Du Bois and black internationalism; 3. From nativism to nationalism: Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe and colonial modernity; 4. From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time; 5. From revolution to arrested decolonization: Ama Ata Aidoo and the long view of history; 6. From return to redemption: Caryl Phillips and postcolonial hybridity; Notes.