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200 10$aHome and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa /$fLena Englund
205   $aFirst edition.
210  1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2024]
210  4$d©2024
215   $a1 online resource (217 pages)
225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities Series
311 08$aPrint version: Englund, Lena Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9783031366352 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Place -- 1.2 Conceptualizing Migration -- 1.3 African Autobiography -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper's The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood -- 2.1 Place and Privilege -- 2.2 Congo People and Country People -- 2.3 "That place ain't my country" -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Exiled Place in Sisonke Msimang's Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home -- 3.1 The Glory of Exile -- 3.2 Becoming Expatriates -- 3.3 Suburb of Privilege -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Family History and Place in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-A Woman's Journey -- 4.1 Locating Childhood -- 4.2 Negotiating Arab Identity -- 4.3 Political Transition -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud's Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -- 5.1 Becoming Black in Canada -- 5.2 Returning Home -- 5.3 Highway 401 -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria -- 6.1 Seeking Transwonderland -- 6.2 Locating Artefacts -- 6.3 Disillusioned Spaces -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Place and Politics in Douglas Rogers's The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe -- 7.1 Nation and/as Place -- 7.2 Drifters as Home and Nation -- 7.3 Staying, Leaving -- 7.4 Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- 8.1 Fleeing Genocide -- 8.2 Sexual Violence -- 8.3 Living with Genocide -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: From Place to Place in Aminatta Forna's Autobiographical Writing -- 9.1 Inevitability of Place -- 9.2 Race and Place.
327   $a9.3 From Place to Place -- 9.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing -- References -- Index.
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606   $aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism
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607   $aAfrica$xIn literature
615  0$aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aHome in literature.
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