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The passport that does not pass ports : African literature of travel in the twenty-first century

Title
The passport that does not pass ports : African literature of travel in the twenty-first century / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.
Publication
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Balseiro, Isabel
  • Rapola, Zachariah
Description
xx, 196 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"This collection gathers seventeen essays on travel in Africa by twenty-first-century African authors"--
Series Statement
African humanities and the arts
Uniform Title
African humanities and the arts.
Subject
  • Travelers' writings
  • Travel
  • Africa > Description and travel
  • Africa > Literary collections
  • Africa
Genre/Form
Literary collections.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Theories of Travel. Bye-Bye Babar / Taiye Selasi (Ghana/Nigeria) -- Afropolitanism / Achille Mbembe (Cameroon) -- II. Traveling Fictions. The Wanderer / Hassouna Mosbahi (Tunisia) -- The Start of the Affair / Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) -- Presidential Portraits / Zachariah Rapola (South Africa) -- A Private Experience / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) -- Weight of Whispers / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) -- Murambi: Excerpt from Murambi, The Book of Bones / Boris Boubacar Diop (Senegal) -- Homeland: Excerpt from Far From My Father / Véronique Tadjo (Côte d'Ivoire) -- Abdar and Terhas: Excerpt from African Titanics / Abu Bakr Hamid Khaal (Eritrea) -- III. Memoirs. Photography is like hunting: Excerpt from A Stranger's Pose / Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria) -- Hargeisa Snapshots / Doreen Baingana (Uganda) -- Zanzibar, circa 1996 / Heidi Grunebaum (South Africa) -- Fugee / Hawa Jande Golakai (Liberia) -- 2010 World Cup: Excerpt from One Day I Will Write About This Place / Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya) -- Port Harcourt: Tending the Backyard : Excerpt from Looking for Transwonderland / Noo Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria) -- Trapdoor: Excerpt from The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between / Hisham Matar (Libya).
Call Number
Sc E 21-782
ISBN
  • 9781611863734
  • 1611863732
LCCN
2019049197
OCLC
1140358917
Title
The passport that does not pass ports : African literature of travel in the twenty-first century / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.
Publisher
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
African humanities and the arts
African humanities and the arts.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Balseiro, Isabel, editor.
Rapola, Zachariah, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc E 21-782
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