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04014aam a22004578i 4500 001 E1F806E2E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 221215s2023 msu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022053807 020 $a 1496843487 020 $a 9781496843487 020 $a 1496843495 020 $a 9781496843494 035 $a (OCoLC)1355404300 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a DT16.5 F353 2023 100 1 $a Falola, Toyin, $e author. 245 10 $a Memories of Africa : $b home and abroad in the United States / $c Toyin Falola. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c 2023. 300 $a 277 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Index. $t Chapter 1. (Shifting) spaces and (fixed) crossroads: the African diaspora and the imaginations of Africa -- $t Chapter 2. Culture and cultural politics in Cherno Njie's "Sweat is invisible in the rain" -- $t Chapter 3. The representation of tradition and modernity in Emmanuel Babatunde's "Kelebogile" -- $t Chapter 4. Deriving meaning: nuances of language, nodes of orality, and sense of communitarianism in Michael Afolayan's "Fate of Our Mothers" -- $t Chapter 5. The density of cultures: A. B. Assensoh's "Journeys" -- $t Chapter 6. Migrant (un)homeliness: universalism and global Identity in the memoirs of A. B. Assensoh and Cherno Njie -- $t Chapter 7. Contrasting experiences of old and new homes in the new African diaspora memoirs -- $t Conclusion. From slave narratives to freedom narratives: a genealogy of immigrant stories -- $t Notes -- $t Bibliography -- $t Index. 520 $a "Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a "new lens" for viewing African diaspora studies, in this case, through 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African diaspora. 650 0 $a Globalization $z Africa. 650 0 $a Africans $z United States. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. 650 0 $a Pan-Africanism. 650 0 $a Transnationalism. 650 0 $a Autobiography $x Black authors. 651 0 $a Africa $x Emigration and immigration. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Falola, Toyin. $t Memories of africa $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023 $z 9781496843470 $w (DLC) 2022053808 830 0 $a Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706014936.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E1F806E2E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search