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This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Afric...
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James Currey is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.,
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| Publisher Address: | Woodbridge, Suffolk : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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African literature today ;
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| Summary: |
This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel Americanah. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 255 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781847011480 (James Currey hardback) : 1847011489 (James Currey hardback) 9781847011497 (Africa-only paperback) 1847011497 (Africa-only paperback) |
| Index Number: | PL8010 |
| CLC: | I400.6 |
| Call Number: | I400.6/D541 |
| Contents: | Editorial Article: Leaving Home/Returning Home: Migration & Contemporary African Literature / Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo -- Alienation & Disorientation in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments / Julia Udofia -- Wait No Longer? The Temporality of Return in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments / Amanda Lagji --"Our Relationship to Spirits": History & Return in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar / David Borman -- The "Rubble" & the "Secret Sorrows": Returning to Somalia in Nuruddin Farah's Links & Crossbones / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo -- Migration, Cultural Memory & Identity in Benj |