{"title":"Camwood: African and African American identities at the crossroads","authors":"Agnès Dengreville","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2021.1908082","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay considers the significance of camwood, a West-African tree, in the work of a Nigerian American writer, Femi Euba. By reviewing the symbolic association of the vegetal trope, the essay explores camwood as a hermeneutical tool to reflect upon Black fate and Black identities in the Atlantic world.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1908082","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay considers the significance of camwood, a West-African tree, in the work of a Nigerian American writer, Femi Euba. By reviewing the symbolic association of the vegetal trope, the essay explores camwood as a hermeneutical tool to reflect upon Black fate and Black identities in the Atlantic world.