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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past (African Histories and Modernities) by Christopher E. W. Ouma is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past (African Histories and Modernities) about?

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. Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2020

Who reads Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past (African Histories and Modernities)?

Author

Christopher E. W. Ouma

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030362577

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Political Science, History