Memories of Africa : home and abroad in the United States /

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"Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a "new lens" for viewing African diaspora studies, in this case, through the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Falola, Toyin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Series:Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Globalization > Africa.
Africans > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Pan-Africanism.
Transnationalism.
Autobiography > Black authors.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Mondialisation > Afrique.
Africains > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Panafricanisme.
Transnationalisme.
Autobiographie > Auteurs noirs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
African Americans > Intellectual life
African diaspora
Africans
Emigration and immigration
Globalization
Pan-Africanism
Transnationalism
Sociology & anthropology.
Society.
Africa > Emigration and immigration.
Afrique > Émigration et immigration.
Africa
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. (Shifting) spaces and (fixed) crossroads: the African diaspora and the imaginations of Africa
  • Chapter 2. Culture and cultural politics in Cherno Njie's "Sweat is invisible in the rain"
  • Chapter 3. The representation of tradition and modernity in Emmanuel Babatunde's "Kelebogile"
  • Chapter 4. Deriving meaning: nuances of language, nodes of orality, and sense of communitarianism in Michael Afolayan's "Fate of Our Mothers"
  • Chapter 5. The density of cultures: A. B. Assensoh's "Journeys"
  • Chapter 6. Migrant (un)homeliness: universalism and global Identity in the memoirs of A. B. Assensoh and Cherno Njie
  • Chapter 7. Contrasting experiences of old and new homes in the new African diaspora memoirs
  • Conclusion. From slave narratives to freedom narratives: a genealogy of immigrant stories
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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