Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 187 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781003203858
,
100320385X
,
9781000770087
,
1000770087
,
9781000770032
,
1000770036
Series Statement:
Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
Content:
Introduction -- Life writing and writing lives -- Afropean homes : representations of belonging -- Gender and migration : opportunities for Afropean experience -- Language and Afropean identity -- Writing and engagement -- Conclusion : Afropean languages and locales.
Content:
"Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe and Africa in different languages (French and Italian). Their work involves episodes from their lived experience and complicates Western understandings of life writing and autobiography. As Hogarth shows in this study, the works of Diome and Scego encapsulate the new and complex identities of contemporary "Afropeans." As an identity coined and used frequently by prominent authors and critics across Europe, Africa and North America, the notion of "Afropean" is at the cutting edge of cultural analyses today. Yet each writer occupies unique and different positions within this debated category. While Scego is a "post-migratory subject" in postcolonial Europe, Diome is an African writer who has migrated to Europe in her adult life. This book examines the different trajectories and packaging of these two specific postcolonial writers in the Francophone and Italophone contexts, pointing out how and where each author practices life writing strategies and scrutinizing the trend that emphasizes the life writing, autofictional, or autoethnographic strategies of African diasporic writers. Afropean Female Selves offers a comparative study across two languages of a notion that has so far been explored mainly in English. It explores the contours of this new discursive category and positions it in regard to other notions of Afrodiasporic identity, such as Afropolitan and Afro-European."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032067889
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032067888
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032067919
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hogarth, Christopher Afropean female selves New York : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 1032067888
Language:
English
