Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter One Mirror Effect: Narrating the Self through Traditions and Cultures
- Chapter Two The Universal and the Particular in African Memoirs
- Chapter Three The Portraiture of Womanhood in Emmanuel Babatunde’s An African Journey through Celibate Priesthood to Married Life
- Chapter Four Politics, Philosophical Representation, and Culture in Cherno Njie’s Sweat Is Invisible in the Rain
- Chapter Five The Yoruba Worldview, Meanings, and Ideals of Life in Michael Afolayan’s Fate of Our Mothers
- Chapter Six The Indelibility of Igbo Tradition (Home) in Kalu Ogbaa’s Carrying my Father’s Torch
- Chapter Seven Experiences, Reflections, and Refractions on the Cusp in A. B. Assensoh’s A Matter of Sharing
- Chapter Eight Toward a Spatial and Identity Synthesis: Regional Peculiarities in African Memoirs
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter One Mirror Effect: Narrating the Self through Traditions and Cultures
- Chapter Two The Universal and the Particular in African Memoirs
- Chapter Three The Portraiture of Womanhood in Emmanuel Babatunde’s An African Journey through Celibate Priesthood to Married Life
- Chapter Four Politics, Philosophical Representation, and Culture in Cherno Njie’s Sweat Is Invisible in the Rain
- Chapter Five The Yoruba Worldview, Meanings, and Ideals of Life in Michael Afolayan’s Fate of Our Mothers
- Chapter Six The Indelibility of Igbo Tradition (Home) in Kalu Ogbaa’s Carrying my Father’s Torch
- Chapter Seven Experiences, Reflections, and Refractions on the Cusp in A. B. Assensoh’s A Matter of Sharing
- Chapter Eight Toward a Spatial and Identity Synthesis: Regional Peculiarities in African Memoirs
- Bibliography
- Index
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- African Memoirs and Cultural RepresentationsNarrating Traditions, pp. ivPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2023