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Memories of Africa - Home and Abroad in the United States (Hardcover)
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Memories of Africa - Home and Abroad in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a
new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of
African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows
how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the
experiences of African migrants over time through political,
social, and cultural spheres. In reading African diaspora memoirs
from the transatlantic slave trade period to the present, a reader
can understand the complexity of the African migrant legacy and
evolution. Author Toyin Falola argues that memoirs are significant
not only in their interpretation of events conveyed by the
memoirists but also in demonstrating how interpersonal and human
the stories told can be. Memoirs are powerful because they are
emotionally captivating and because important themes and events
circulate around a particular person (in this case, the memoirist).
Undoubtedly, a memoir is significant because it can teach anyone
about a part of the human experience, even if the "facts" are not
described without bias. Through this sort of narrative, the reader
cannot help but enter into the memoirist's mind and, therefore,
feel more empathy for them. In doing so, the reader can "feel" what
the memoirist feels and "see" what the memoirist sees as clearly as
is humanly possible. In this way, the historical events and life
lessons become tangible and poignantly real to the reader.
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