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The passport that does not pass ports : African literature of travel in the twenty-first century / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African humanities and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--Description and travel.
- Africa.
- Travelers' writings.
- Africa--Literary collections.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- I. Theories of Travel. Bye-Bye Babar / Taiye Selasi (Ghana/Nigeria)
- Afropolitanism / Achille Mbembe (Cameroon)
- II. Traveling Fictions. The Wanderer / Hassouna Mosbahi (Tunisia)
- The Start of the Affair / Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
- Presidential Portraits / Zachariah Rapola (South Africa)
- A Private Experience / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
- Weight of Whispers / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya)
- Murambi: Excerpt from Murambi, The Book of Bones / Boris Boubacar Diop (Senegal)
- Homeland: Excerpt from Far From My Father / Véronique Tadjo (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Abdar and Terhas: Excerpt from African Titanics / Abu Bakr Hamid Khaal (Eritrea)
- III. Memoir. Photography: Excerpt from A Stranger's Pose / Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria)
- Hargeisa Snapshots / Doreen Baingana (Uganda)
- Zanzibar, circa 1996 / Heidi Grunebaum (South Africa)
- Fugee / Hawa Jande Golakai (Liberia)
- 2010 World Cup: Excerpt from One Day I Will Write About This Place / Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya)
- Port Harcourt: Tending the Backyard : Excerpt from Looking for Transwonderland / Noo Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)
- Trapdoor: Excerpt from The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between / Hisham Matar (Libya).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609176471
- 1609176472
- Publisher Number:
- 40030099241
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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