The Politics of Love and History
Asian Women and African Men in East African Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jones Jones (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 166 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/reseafrilite.42.3.166 |
| OpenAlex | W2153490462 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper traces a chronology of representations of Asian East Africans in literature written in English. Considering novels, short stories, and films produced over the past fifty years, it focuses on love stories between Asian and black characters. The paper highlights the significance of these love stories to the evocation of diasporic histories, and the making and breaking of national mythologies. It is particularly concerned with the rare telling of relationships between Asian women and black men. The paper most fully works towards an understanding of the heightened and brittle symbolic resonance of these love stories within the political historiographies offered by the texts
Art · Evocation · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |