Alt 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction: African Literature Today Contributor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. (Editor), Cousins, Helen, Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline |
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ISBN: 1847011489 ISBN-13: 9781847011480 Publisher: James Currey OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African |
Dewey: 809.896 |
LCCN: 2016435899 |
Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of -home-. GUEST EDITORS: HELEN COUSINS, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK; PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO, was formerly Head of English at Newman University, Birmingham, UK, and Dean of the School of Arts at Anglia Ruskin University. Series Editor: Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma |