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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature - Memories and Futures Past (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature - Memories and Futures Past (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: African Histories and Modernities
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This book examines the representation of figures, memories and
images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African
fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues
that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary
African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through
the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of
time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to
re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new
spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book
therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time
and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts
of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of
childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of
Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in
Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of
migration within Africa, North America and Europe.
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