LEADER 03102nam 22005172 450 001 9910151575503321 005 20170502153407.0 010 $a1-78204-858-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951935 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781782048589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721191 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951935 100 $a20161115d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDiaspora & returns in fiction /$fguest editors: Helen Cousins & Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo; editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assistant editor: Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors: Jane Bryce [and six others] ; reviews editor : Obi Nwakanma$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aWoodbridge, Suffolk :$cJames Currey is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aAfrican literature today ;$v34 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017). 311 $a1-84701-148-9 330 $aThis 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 Americanah. 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".

GUEST EDITORS: HELEN COUSINS, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK; PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO, Head of English at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

Series Editor: Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

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