In the Shadow of the Castle

(Trans)Nationalism, African American Tourism, and Gorée Island

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9250641
AutoresSalamishah Tillet (California University of Pennsylvania, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume40
Fascículo4
Páginas122-141
Data de publicação2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/ral.2009.40.4.122
OpenAlexW2024082533
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas14

"In The Shadow of the Castle: (Trans) Nationalism, African-American Tourism, and Gorée Island" argues that the late twentieth-century "Back to Africa" discourse departs from the nineteenth-century emigrationist and mid-twentieth-century expatriate "Back to Africa" movements; the contemporary discourse predicates itself more on a commemoration of slavery's past than on creating a programmatic solution for the future and establishing an alternative homeland in an emancipated African postcolonial present. By examining the photographs from Carrie Mae Weems's "Elmina Cape Coast Ile de Goree" and Chester Higgins's "The House of Slaves at the Door of No Return," this article contends that the advent of African American heritage tourism enables post-Civil Rights African Americans to replace (and thus temporarily reconcile) their sense of exclusion from America's canonized national self-narrative with recourse to an alternative, albeit romantically imagined, Diasporic site of origin

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