Reading Multiple Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity - Hardcover

by Komla M. Avono (Author), Kristina Marie Darling (Foreword by)

Through close readings of literary texts by Camara Laye to Ata Aidoo, via Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, this book re-evaluates the issue of double consciousness originally raised by W.E.B. DuBois and, in doing so, problematize the role of the intellectuals in relation to their community.

Author Biography

Komla M. Avono is faculty in the Department of English at the University of Lome, Togo.