LEADER 03230nam 22005535 450 001 9910484582303321 005 20230822232750.0 010 $a3-030-36256-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-36256-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000010480372 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6126656 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-36256-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010480372 100 $a20200227d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aChildhood in contemporary diasporic African literature $ememories and futures past /$fby Christopher E. W. Ouma 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (209 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican histories and modernities,$x2634-5773 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Constructing Childhood as a Set of Ideas -- Chapter 2: ?We Are Children of the Cold War?: Childhood Times as Alternative -- Chapter 3: Countries of the Mind: Cartographies of Postmemory -- Chapter 4: Childhoods of War: ?Na Craze World Be Dat? -- Chapter 5: Queer Childhoods and Multidirectional Desire -- Chapter 6: Diaspora Childhoods: Creating Sublimated Connections -- Chapter 7: Identity and Childhood. 330 $aThis book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of migration within Africa, North America and Europe.?. 410 0$aAfrican histories and modernities,$x2634-5773 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLiterature    606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature   . 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a809.6 700 $aOuma$b Christopher E. W$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0972150 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484582303321 996 $aChildhood in contemporary diasporic African literature$92210270 997 $aUNINA