Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa

by Lena Englund

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 Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil's The Girl Who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031366352
• ISBN13: 9783031366352
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"