| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 187 pages) |
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Routledge Auto/Biography Studies |
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Routledge auto/biography studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Life writing and writing lives -- Afropean homes : representations of belonging -- Gender and migration : opportunities for Afropean experience -- Language and Afropean identity -- Writing and engagement -- Conclusion : Afropean languages and locales |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Christopher Hogarth is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. He received his PhD in French and Italian from Northwestern University. He has published especially on the intersection of literature from France, Italy and Senegal |
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Print version record |
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Diome, Fatou, 1968- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Scego, Igiaba, 1974- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Diome, Fatou, 1968- fast (OCoLC)fst01924843 |
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Scego, Igiaba, 1974- fast (OCoLC)fst01928857 |
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European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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European literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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European literature -- Women authors.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003203858 |
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100320385X |
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9781000770087 |
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1000770087 |
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9781000770032 |
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1000770036 |
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