The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports : African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century.
"This collection gathers seventeen essays on travel in Africa by twenty-first-century African authors"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | African Humanities and the Arts Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Theories of Travel. Bye-Bye Babar / Taiye Selasi (Ghana/Nigeria)
- Afropolitanism / Achille Mbembe (Cameroon)
- II. Traveling Fictions. The Wanderer / Hassouna Mosbahi (Tunisia)
- The Start of the Affair / Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
- Presidential Portraits / Zachariah Rapola (South Africa)
- A Private Experience / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
- Weight of Whispers / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya)
- Murambi: Excerpt from Murambi, The Book of Bones / Boris Boubacar Diop (Senegal)
- Homeland: Excerpt from Far From My Father / Véronique Tadjo (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Abdar and Terhas: Excerpt from African Titanics / Abu Bakr Hamid Khaal (Eritrea)
- III. Memoir. Photography: Excerpt from A Stranger's Pose / Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria)
- Hargeisa Snapshots / Doreen Baingana (Uganda)
- Zanzibar, circa 1996 / Heidi Grunebaum (South Africa)
- Fugee / Hawa Jande Golakai (Liberia)
- 2010 World Cup: Excerpt from One Day I Will Write About This Place / Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya)
- Port Harcourt: Tending the Backyard : Excerpt from Looking for Transwonderland / Noo Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)
- Trapdoor: Excerpt from The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between / Hisham Matar (Libya).