Home and nation in Anglophone autobiographies of Africa / Lena Englund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Englund, Lena, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

African histories and modernities 2634-5781

African histories and modernities, 2634-5781

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--African authors--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

Home in literature.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 215 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]

Contents:

Chapter 1- Introduction

Chapter 2 - Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper's The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

Chapter 3. Exiled Place in Sisonke Msimang's Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home

Chapter 4 - Family History and Place in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - A Woman's Journey

Chapter 5- Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud's Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Chapter 6- Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria

Chapter 7- Place and Politics in Douglas Rogers's The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

Chapter 8 - Place and Trauma in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

Chapter 9 - From Place to Place in Aminatta Forna's Autobiographical Writing

Chapter 10- Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 24, 2023).

ISBN:

9783031366369

3031366360

Publisher Number:

99995139053

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.