LEADER 04261nam 22005895 450 001 9910760270903321 005 20231021133710.0 010 $a3-031-36636-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-36636-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30806108 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30806108 035 $a(CKB)28540028200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-36636-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928540028200041 100 $a20231021d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHome and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa /$fby Lena Englund 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 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 $aChapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper?s The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood -- Chapter 3. Exiled Place in Sisonke Msimang?s Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home -- Chapter 4 - Family History and Place in Leila Ahmed?s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America ? A Woman?s Journey -- Chapter 5- Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud?s Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -- Chapter 6- Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa?s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria -- Chapter 7- Place and Politics in Douglas Rogers?s The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe -- 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 -- Chapter 9 - From Place to Place in Aminatta Forna?s Autobiographical Writing -- Chapter 10- Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing. 330 $aThis book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ?place?. It examines eight authors? works ? Helen Cooper?s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang?s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed?s A Border Passage, Noo Saro-Wiwa?s Looking for Transwonderland, Douglas Rogers?s The Last Resort, Elamin Abdelmahmoud?s Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil?s The Girl Who Smiled Beads and Aminatta Forna?s autobiographical writing ? to argue that place is particularly central to personal narrative in texts whose authors have migrated multiple times. Spanning Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, this book interrogates the label ?African? writing which has been criticized for ignoring local contexts. It demonstrates how in their works these writers seek to reconnect with a bygone ?Africa?, often after complex experiences of political upheavals and personal loss. The chapters also provide in-depth analyses of key concepts related to place and autobiography: place and privilege, place and trauma, and the relationship between place and nation. Lena Englund currently works as senior researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. She is the author of South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past (Palgrave, 2021). 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 606 $aCreative nonfiction 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aLiterature 606 $aNon-Fiction Literature 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aWorld Literature 615 0$aCreative nonfiction. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aLiterature. 615 14$aNon-Fiction Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aWorld Literature. 676 $a820.996 676 $a808.06692 700 $aEnglund$b Lena$0853135 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910760270903321 996 $aHome and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa$93599616 997 $aUNINA