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Memories of Africa : home and abroad in the United States / Toyin Falola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Falola, Toyin, author.
- Series:
- Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora.
- Globalization--Africa.
- Globalization.
- Africans--United States.
- Africans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Pan-Africanism.
- Transnationalism.
- Autobiography--Black authors.
- Autobiography.
- Africa--Emigration and immigration.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Memories of Africa : home and abroad in the US
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. (Shifting) spaces and (fixed) crossroads: the African diaspora and the imaginations of Africa
- Chapter 2. Culture and cultural politics in Cherno Njie's "Sweat is invisible in the rain"
- Chapter 3. The representation of tradition and modernity in Emmanuel Babatunde's "Kelebogile"
- Chapter 4. Deriving meaning: nuances of language, nodes of orality, and sense of communitarianism in Michael Afolayan's "Fate of Our Mothers"
- Chapter 5. The density of cultures: A. B. Assensoh's "Journeys"
- Chapter 6. Migrant (un)homeliness: universalism and global Identity in the memoirs of A. B. Assensoh and Cherno Njie
- Chapter 7. Contrasting experiences of old and new homes in the new African diaspora memoirs
- Conclusion. From slave narratives to freedom narratives: a genealogy of immigrant stories
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Falola, Toyin. Memories of Africa
- ISBN:
- 9781496843449
- 1496843444
- 9781496843470
- 1496843479
- 9781496843463
- 1496843460
- 9781496843456
- 1496843452
- Publisher Number:
- 40031677134
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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