Overview: Contributes to discussion on migrancy, identities, and autobiographical writing in Anglophone African literature.Draws on a diverse range of writers in terms of gender and generation, locations, and e.This 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 .
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