Emenyonu / Cousins / Dodgson-Katiyo ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction

African Literature Today
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78204-858-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 34, 268 Seiten

Reihe: African Literature Today

Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Cousins, Helen

Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline

Cousins, Helen

Udofia, Julia

Lagji, Amanda

Borman, David

Okyerefo, Michael P K O

Yitah, Helen

Arnett, James

Akhuemokhan, Sophie

Okolocha, H. Obiageli

Ney, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Article: Leaving Home/Returning Home: Migration & Contemporary African Literature - Helen Cousins
Editorial Article: Leaving Home/Returning Home: Migration & Contemporary African Literature - Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
Alienation & Disorientation in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments - Julia Udofia
Wait No Longer? The Temporality of Return in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments - Amanda Lagji
"Our Relationship to Spirits": History & Return in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar - David Borman
The "Rubble" & the "Secret Sorrows": Returning to Somalia in Nuruddin Farah's Links & Crossbones - Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
Migration, Cultural Memory & Identity in Benjamin Kwakye's The Other Crucifix - Helen Yitah
Migration, Cultural Memory & Identity in Benjamin Kwakye's The Other Crucifix - Michael P K O Okyerefo
No Place Like Home: Failures of Feeling & the Impossibility of Return in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - James Arnett
"The Backward Glance": Repetition & Return in Pede Hollist's So the Path Does Not Die - Sophie Akhuemokhan
Negotiating Race, Identity & Homecoming in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah & Pede Hollist's So the Path Does Not Die - H. Oby Okolocha
The Problem of Return in Local Gambian Bildungsroman - Stephen Ney
Returns "Home": Constructing Belonging in Black British Literature - Evans, Evaristo & Oyeyemi - Helen Cousins
"Zimbabweanness Today": An Interview with Tendai Huchu - Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
Featured Articles by Bernth Lindfors, Eustace Palmer & Helen Chukwuma
Literary Supplement - Four Poems by Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Reviews, Edited by Obi Nwakanma

Über Autor(innen)

Emenyonu Ernest N.:
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).Okolocha H. Obiageli:
H. Obiageli Okolocha is a Professor of African Literature, Theory and Gender Studies in the Department of English and Literature, University of Benin, Nigeria.