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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-78204-858-8

Series Statement: African literature today ; 34

Content: This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel 〈I〉Americanah〈/I〉. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of "home".〈BR〉〈BR〉 GUEST EDITORS: HELEN COUSINS, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK; PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO, Head of English at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Series Editor: Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma〈BR〉〈BR〉

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Notes on Contributors -- , EDITORIAL ARTICLE -- , ARTICLES -- , Alienation & Disorientation in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments -- , Wait No Longer?: The Temporality of Return in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments -- , ‘Our Relationship to Spirits’: History & Return in Syl Cheney-Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar -- , The ‘Rubble’ & the ‘Secret Sorrows’: Returning to Somalia in Nuruddin Farah’s Links & Crossbones -- , Migration, Cultural Memory & Identity in Benjamin Kwakye’s The Other Crucifix -- , No Place Like Home: Failures of Feeling & the Impossibility of Return in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears -- , ‘The Backward Glance’: Repetition & Return in Pede Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die -- , Negotiating Race, Identity & Homecoming in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah & Pede Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die -- , The Problem of Return in the Local Gambian Bildungsroman -- , Returns ‘Home’: Constructing Belonging in Black British Literature – Evans, Evaristo & Oyeyemi -- , ‘Zimbabweanness Today’: An Interview with Tendai Huchu -- , FEATURED ARTICLES -- , Remembering Early Issues of African Literature Today -- , African Literature Today. Its History, Story, Impact & Continuing Journey* -- , On African Literature Today -- , LITERARY SUPPLEMENT -- , REVIEWS -- , Eds Xavier Garnier & Pierre Halen, Littératures africaines et paysage -- , Mukoma wa Ngugi, Mrs. Shaw (A Novel) -- , Elleke Boehmer, The Shouting in the Dark -- , Ernest Emenyonu, Princess Mmaeyen and Other Stories -- , Dayo Olopade, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-84701-148-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781782048589

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782048589/type/BOOK