Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing
of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of
two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African
descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe and
Africa in different languages (French and Italian). Their work
involves episodes from their lived experience and complicates
Western understandings of life writing and autobiography. As
Hogarth shows in this study, the works of Diome and Scego
encapsulate the new and complex identities of contemporary
"Afropeans." As an identity coined and used frequently by prominent
authors and critics across Europe, Africa and North America, the
notion of "Afropean" is at the cutting edge of cultural analyses
today. Yet each writer occupies unique and different positions
within this debated category. While Scego is a "post-migratory
subject" in postcolonial Europe, Diome is an African writer who has
migrated to Europe in her adult life. This book examines the
different trajectories and packaging of these two specific
postcolonial writers in the Francophone and Italophone contexts,
pointing out how and where each author practices life writing
strategies and scrutinizing the trend that emphasizes the life
writing, autofictional, or autoethnographic strategies of African
diasporic writers. Afropean Female Selves offers a comparative
study across two languages of a notion that has so far been
explored mainly in English. It explores the contours of this new
discursive category and positions it in regard to other notions of
Afrodiasporic identity, such as Afropolitan and Afro-European.
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