The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports : African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century.

Balseiro, Isabel,

The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports : African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (217 pages). - African Humanities and the Arts Ser. JSTOR DDA collection .

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Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Theories of Travel. Bye-Bye Babar / Afropolitanism / II. Traveling Fictions. The Wanderer / The Start of the Affair / Presidential Portraits / A Private Experience / Weight of Whispers / Murambi: Excerpt from Murambi, The Book of Bones / Homeland: Excerpt from Far From My Father / Abdar and Terhas: Excerpt from African Titanics / III. Memoir. Photography: Excerpt from A Stranger's Pose / Hargeisa Snapshots / Zanzibar, circa 1996 / Fugee / 2010 World Cup: Excerpt from One Day I Will Write About This Place / Port Harcourt: Tending the Backyard : Excerpt from Looking for Transwonderland / Trapdoor: Excerpt from The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between / Taiye Selasi (Ghana/Nigeria) -- Achille Mbembe (Cameroon) -- Hassouna Mosbahi (Tunisia) -- Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) -- Zachariah Rapola (South Africa) -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) -- Boris Boubacar Diop (Senegal) -- Véronique Tadjo (Côte d'Ivoire) -- Abu Bakr Hamid Khaal (Eritrea) -- Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria) -- Doreen Baingana (Uganda) -- Heidi Grunebaum (South Africa) -- Hawa Jande Golakai (Liberia) -- Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya) -- Noo Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria) -- Hisham Matar (Libya).

"This collection gathers seventeen essays on travel in Africa by twenty-first-century African authors"--



9781609176471 9781628954081


Travelers' writings.


Electronic Books.

DT12 / .P377 2020