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African memoirs and cultural representations
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- Book Synopsis
- Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs, social practices, oral, linguistic, and values that define an individual's way of life. In other words, in memoir writing, the emphasis is often to propagate a unilateral need or embrace of self-identity. However, the dominant narrative and method of analysis in this study holds the notion and privileges that tradition and cultures imbibed by memoirists are sometimes subverted, refashioned, or reworked due to the strand of experiences or realities they encounter in different spaces as their narration develops. Thus, memoirists embrace indifference and open-mindedness, which is also greatly explored in the context of autobiography.
- About The Author
- Toyin Falola is an author and editor of over one hundred and fifty books on Africa and the African Diaspora, and widely proclaimed as Africa's preeminent scholar and one of the major intellectuals of our time. A global icon in African Studies, Toyin Falola has received sixteen honorary doctorates.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781839987748
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Anthem Press, (13 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 220
- Weight
- 330.21 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 25 mm
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