Diaspora & returns in fiction /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
James Curry,
2016.
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| Series: | African literature today ;
34. |
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Table of 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 Benjamin Kwakye's The Other Crucifix / Helen Yitah and Michael P K O Okyerefo
- No Place Like Home: Failures of Feeling & the Impossibility of Return in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / James Arnett
- "The Backward Glance": Repetition & Return in Pede Hollist's So the Path Does Not Die / Sophie Akhuemokhan
- Negotiating Race, Identity & Homecoming in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah & Pede Hollist's So the Path Does Not Die / H. Oby Okolocha
- The Problem of Return in Local Gambian Bildungsroman / Stephen Ney
- Returns "Home": Constructing Belonging in Black British Literature
- Evans, Evaristo & Oyeyemi / Helen Cousins
- "Zimbabweanness Today": An Interview with Tendai Huchu / Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo.