Black Writers Abroad

A Study of Black American Writers in Europe and Africa

Robert Coles

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138389557
• eBook ISBN: 9780429753152
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Originally published in 1999 Black Writers Abroad puts forward the theory that African American literature was born, partially within the context of a people and its writers who lived, for the most part, in slavery and bondage prior to the Civil War. It is an in-depth study of black American writers who, left the United States as expatriates. The book discusses the people that left, where they went, why they left and why they did or did not return, from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. It seeks to explain the impact exile had upon these authors' literary work and careers, as well as upon African American literary history.

Index

Abolitionists, 3, 19-20

in Great Britain, 33-46

Accra assembly, 131

ACS. See American Colonization Society

Africa, 8, 46, 61, 62, 98n. 64

emigration to, 54, 63-64, 71

and Harlem Renaissance, 77-78

Hughes in, 83

in the 1960s, 145

in the 1990s, 153

See also Garveyism; Ghana

African Review (Accra), 131

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Angelou), 134-35, 139

Amamoo, Joseph, 127

America and Other Poems (Whitfield), 64

American Anti-Slavery Society, 26, 45

American Colonization Society (ACS), 52, 54, 59, 61, 62, 66n. 12

American Fugitive in Europe, The (Brown), 41, 42

“American in Rome, An” (Kelly), 151

American Revolution, 24

“American Working Girls in Paris” (Berry), 148

Anderson, Osborne P., 28

Angelou, Maya, 125, 126, 130, 136, 138-39

in Ghana, 132-35

Anglo-African Magazine, The, 57

Anti-immigration laws, 21

Anti-slavery communities, 25

Anti-slavery movement, 3

Anti-slavery societies, 20

Appiah, Anthony, 69n. 60

Aptheker, Herbert, 50

Assimilation, 74

Auld, Hugh, 35

Autobiography, black, 16, 73, 75 See also Slave narrative

Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro (Ward), 25, 46

Autobiography of Malcolm X, 136, 139

Back-to-Africa movement, 5, 75 See also Garvey, Marcus

Bagger, Eugene, 8

Baker, Josephine, 10

Baldwin, James, 6, 10, 43, 63, 101, 102, 122...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• I. Introduction
• II. Escape From Slavery
• III. Black Abolitionists in Great Britain
• IV. Emigration
• V. Expatriates and the New Negro
• VI. The French Scene
• VII. Black American Writers in Ghana During the Nkrumah Era
• VIII. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index