Drawing the map of heaven : an African writer in America / by Tanure Ojaide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Biography.

Authors.

Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lagos : Malthouse Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996. Drawing the Map of Heaven picks up where his earlier memoir, Great Boys. An African Childhood which charted his upbringing in Nigeria by his Grandmother, left off. Less a purely personal tale and more a story of the many other African immigrants in the United States Ojaide in the text uses ""we"" to speak collectively for a traditionally communal society now residing in an individualistic setting. As much a reflection of an African ba

Contents:

COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 1. LEAVING HOME; 2. BORN TO MOVE; 3. BLACK, BUT NOT QUITE BLACK; 4. THE WALLA WALLA YEAR; 5. A NIGERIAN SOUTHERNER IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH; 6. NORTH CAROLINA; 7. REPRESENTATIVE OF A FOREIGN STATE; 8. AFRICAN FAMILY TIES IN AMERICA; 9. DIMENSIONS OF DIFFERENCE, DIMENSIONS OF SAMENESS; 10. DEFINING MOMENT: THE OJ SIMPSON CASE; 11. MIND READERS AND THOUGHTFUL SINGERS

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

978-8422-69-1

1-283-59345-9

9786613905901

978-8422-68-3

978-8422-67-5

OCLC:

900346089