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Diaspora & returns in fiction /

This 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 Afric...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cousins, Helen (Editor ), Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline (Editor ), Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939- (Editor ), Emenyonu, Pat. T. (Patricia Thornton) (Editor ), Bryce, Jane (Editor ), Nwakanma, Obi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Curry, 2016.
Colección:African literature today ; 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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