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Alt 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction: African Literature Today

Alt 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction: African Literature Today

Emenyonu, Ernest N.
Cousins, Helen
Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline

Hardcover

Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover), Book 34

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1847011489
ISBN13: 9781847011480
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Nov 18 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Imagined or actual returns to a homeland in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.

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 thepresent, 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

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