Struggle, Resistance and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960

Examines six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future.

In belonging to an oppressed/colonised racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased, African American writers since the 1960s have struggled to be heard and represented. Yet, despite the racism, terror, trauma, and dehumanisation, they, in revisiting, reclaiming, and reassessing their history and culture, used their decolonised imaginations and agency to reconfigure their history, subjectivity, and reality, and to invoke a more humane and just world, with love, despite all the odds.