Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	1
dc.bibliographicCitation.journal	European journal of American studies
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	6
dc.contributor.author	Stein, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-23T15:40:52Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-23T15:40:52Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric and argues that Obama uses the text to create a life story that resonates with central concepts of African American selfhood and black male identity, including double consciousness, invisibility, and black nationalism. The article reads Dreams from My Father as an attempt to arrive at a state of “functional Blackness,” which moves away from questions of racial authenticity and identity politics but recognizes the narrative powers of African American literature to shape a convincing and appealing black self.
dc.identifier.doi	10.4000/ejas.9232
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/323
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.issn	1991-9336
dc.relation.journal	European Journal of American Studies
dc.relation.journalalt	EJAS
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC 3.0
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:800
dc.subject.field	americanstudies
dc.subject.field	literarystudies
dc.title	Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature
dc.type	article
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
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