AUDIENCE, DOUBLE-CONSCIOUSNESS, AND AFRICAN TEACHERS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE CHALLENGING DEBATE (original) (raw)

While black writers and critics importantly focus more on community concerns than they do individual ones, little does their audiences in both Africa and America share the same significance of being black. It is obvious that the formerly colonized African Blacks and the formerly enslaved American Blacks did not go through the same historical, cultural, or social experiences. However, blackness does not always appear to be different for especially African scholars who teach and conduct research on African American literature. This paper revisits the issue of race and its implications on both continents to raise the debate over African scholars' double (and more) consciousness while dealing with African American literature.