Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa / / Lena Englund |
Autore | Englund Lena |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2024] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
Disciplina | 820.996 |
Collana | African Histories and Modernities Series |
Soggetto topico |
African literature (English) - History and criticism
Home in literature |
ISBN | 3-031-36636-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- 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.
9.3 From Place to Place -- 9.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910760270903321 |
Englund Lena | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2024] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : from China to Africa / / Birgit Tautz |
Autore | Tautz Birgit |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 830.9920693 |
Soggetto topico |
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
German literature - 19th century - History and criticism Ethnicity in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36317-0
9786611363178 0-230-60364-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hegel at the Limits of Discourse; 2 Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China; 3 Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China; 4 Detailed Ethnicity: Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts; 5 Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness; 6 Reading History, Seeing Selves: The Turn to the Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451207103321 |
Tautz Birgit | ||
Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : from China to Africa / / Birgit Tautz |
Autore | Tautz Birgit |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 830.9920693 |
Soggetto topico |
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
German literature - 19th century - History and criticism Ethnicity in literature |
ISBN |
1-281-36317-0
9786611363178 0-230-60364-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hegel at the Limits of Discourse; 2 Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China; 3 Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China; 4 Detailed Ethnicity: Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts; 5 Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness; 6 Reading History, Seeing Selves: The Turn to the Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784139503321 |
Tautz Birgit | ||
Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Reading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : from China to Africa / / Birgit Tautz |
Autore | Tautz Birgit |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 830.9920693 |
Soggetto topico |
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
German literature - 19th century - History and criticism Ethnicity in literature |
ISBN |
1-281-36317-0
9786611363178 0-230-60364-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hegel at the Limits of Discourse; 2 Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China; 3 Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China; 4 Detailed Ethnicity: Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts; 5 Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness; 6 Reading History, Seeing Selves: The Turn to the Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825332203321 |
Tautz Birgit | ||
Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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