04080nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001100172072001500183072002300198072001400221100008300235245010300318250001800421264007900439300003400518336002600552337002600578338003600604347002400640490005000664505094500714520143001659650003203089650003103121650002303152650003503175650003103210650002903241710003403270773002603304776003603330776003603366776003603402830005703438856004603495912001403541912001403555999001703569978-3-031-36636-9DE-He21320251030110824.0cr nn 008mamaa231021s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830313663699978-3-031-36636-97 a10.1007/978-3-031-36636-92doi 4aPN45.5 7aDN2bicssc 7aLIT0000002bisacsh 7aDN2thema1 aEnglund, Lena.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut96665010aHome and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africah[electronic resource] /cby Lena Englund.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aVII, 215 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aAfrican Histories and Modernities,x2634-57810 aChapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood -- Chapter 3. Exiled Place in Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home -- Chapter 4 - Family History and Place in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey -- Chapter 5- Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -- Chapter 6- Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria -- Chapter 7- Place and Politics in Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe -- 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 -- Chapter 9 - From Place to Place in Aminatta Forna’s Autobiographical Writing -- Chapter 10- Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing.  aThis book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort, Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads and Aminatta Forna’s autobiographical writing – to argue that place is particularly central to personal narrative in texts whose authors have migrated multiple times. Spanning Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, this book interrogates the label ‘African’ writing which has been criticized for ignoring local contexts. It demonstrates how in their works these writers seek to reconnect with a bygone ‘Africa’, often after complex experiences of political upheavals and personal loss. The chapters also provide in-depth analyses of key concepts related to place and autobiography: place and privilege, place and trauma, and the relationship between place and nation. Lena Englund currently works as senior researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. She is the author of South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past (Palgrave, 2021). 0aCreative nonfiction.966651 0aAfrican literature.966652 0aLiterature.96510814aNon-Fiction Literature.96665324aAfrican Literature.96665424aWorld Literature.9666552 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303136635208iPrinted edition:z978303136637608iPrinted edition:z9783031366383 0aAfrican Histories and Modernities,x2634-578196665640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36636-9  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c56428d56428