Alt 34 Diaspora and Returns in Fiction
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Publication
2016 - Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Language
English
Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781847011480
- ISBN-101847011489
- OCLC Control Number966448696
- Better World Books9781847011480
- Open LibraryOL28608165M
Classifications
- LCCPL8010
- LCCPL8010 .A4 no.34
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" --
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