Diaspora & returns in fiction
by Bryce, Jane Cousins, Helen Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline Emenyonu, Pat. T., (Patricia Thornton) Emenyo̲nu, Ernest Nwakanma, Obi
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 havin…
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- Full title :Diaspora & returns in fiction / guest editors: Helen Cousins & Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo ; editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assistant editor: Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors: Jane Bryce [and six others] ; reviews editor: Obi Nwakanma.
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 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"--
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):James Curry
- Place of Publication:Woodbridge, Suffolk
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782048589, 1782048588
- oclc:ocn963932317
- LC Classification:PL8010
- Dewey Decimal:809/.896
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