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Alt 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction

By Emenyonu, Ernest N

Alt 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction Contemporary literature

Alt 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction

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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 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
Product details
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2016-11-18
Publication Date:
2016-11-01
Publisher:
James Currey
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847011489
ISBN13:
9781847011480
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
477 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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