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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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Balseiro, Isabel (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rapola, Zachariah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2020.
Colección:African Humanities and the Arts Ser.
Temas:
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).