When the wanderers come home / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh, author.

Series:

African poetry book series.

African Poetry Book Series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as "one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century, " Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of ahomeland stillreconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction. Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a diaspora African and the devastation of a country and continent struggling to recover. When the Wanderers Come Home is a woman's story about being an exile, a survivor, and an outsider in her own country; it is her cry for the Africa that is being lost in wars across the continent, creating more wanderers and world citizens.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Book I. Coming Home

Book II. Colliding Worlds

Book III. World(Un)/Breakable.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803295032

0803295030

9780803295018

0803295014