Titlebook: Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa; Lena Englund Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exc

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36636-9Literature and Cultural Studies; Autobiography; Life Writing; Place; Africa

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Lena EnglundContributes 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

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,Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper’s ,rgely revolves around the political upheavals taking place in Liberia, beginning with the coup in 1980. Place is emphasized through the affluent childhood home at Sugar Beach and the relationship Cooper and her family have not only to Liberia, but also to the United States to which they relocate aft

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,Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s ,ind footing in the spaces provided in the city to which Abdelmahmoud relocates. The text follows Abdelmahmoud’s teenage years and young adulthood in Canada, to which he moved in 2000 with his mother to join his father, who had relocated earlier. Arabness takes on a different meaning in the memoir wh

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,Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s , travels around Nigeria, the country of her parents. The memoir reveals deep anxieties with regard not only to place, in this case Nigeria as a nation, but also to the various cities and specific locations Saro-Wiwa visits. Much of the anxiety present in the text is related to the author’s father Ke