| Titre : |
Diaspora & returns in fiction |
| Titre original : |
Diaspora and returns in fiction |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Jane Bryce, Editeur scientifique ; Helen Cousins, Editeur scientifique ; Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Editeur scientifique ; Ernest Nneji Emenyonu (1939-....), Editeur scientifique ; Patricia T. Emenyonu, Editeur scientifique ; Obi Nwakanma, Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
Woodbridge - Suffolk [Royaume-Uni] : James Currey |
| Année de publication : |
2016 |
| Collection : |
African literature today num. 34 |
| Importance : |
xii, 255 pages |
| Format : |
22 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-84701-148-0 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Émigration et immigration en littérature ; Littérature africaine -- Histoire et critique ; Migration de retour en littérature
|
| Index. décimale : |
809.896 |
| Résumé : |
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" |
| Note de contenu : |
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 |
Diaspora & returns in fiction = Diaspora and returns in fiction [texte imprimé] / Jane Bryce, Editeur scientifique ; Helen Cousins, Editeur scientifique ; Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Editeur scientifique ; Ernest Nneji Emenyonu (1939-....), Editeur scientifique ; Patricia T. Emenyonu, Editeur scientifique ; Obi Nwakanma, Editeur scientifique . - Woodbridge - Suffolk (Royaume-Uni) : James Currey, 2016 . - xii, 255 pages ; 22 cm. - ( African literature today; 34) . ISBN : 978-1-84701-148-0 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Émigration et immigration en littérature ; Littérature africaine -- Histoire et critique ; Migration de retour en littérature
|
| Index. décimale : |
809.896 |
| Résumé : |
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" |
| Note de contenu : |
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 |
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