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Velvet Seekers: Africans Orbiting These Parts

Velvet Seekers: Africans Orbiting These Parts

Akurang-Parry, Kwabena O.

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ISBN10: 9956553565
ISBN13: 9789956553563
Publisher: Langaa Rpcig
Published: Nov 14 2023
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This novel deals with Contemporary African Diaspora lived-experiences in the Western world, conceptualized as These Parts. It is inhabited by three main contemporary African Diaspora characters whose composite experiences of dialogic reminiscing and monologic reflections inform the architecture of the narrative of despondency, morbidity, and alienation. At the core of the story are struggles that Africans go through overseas and the ways that such struggles shape their consciousness and perspectives on both the Western world and Africa The quest for the Velvet. a metaphor designating Western materialism serves as a magnet that lures Africans overseas. Paradoxically. the Velvet is also a watershed of hopelessness and uncertain future for Africa. Although, the setting of the story is overseas or These Parts. characters ruminate over their experiences in Ghana, both before and after their sojourn overseas. Thus, in many ways, Ghana serves as an epistemic site symbolizing Africa as a whole The story is written for the general public, but will be indispensable on the book shelves of students of African History, African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Hegemony and the Postcolonial Studies, Heritage Studies. Cultural Studies, and Migration and Transnational Studies.

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