African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
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African Memoirs and Cultural Representations

Narrating Traditions

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African Memoirs and Cultural Representations

Narrating Traditions

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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.

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Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781839987755
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter One Mirror Effect: Narrating the Self through Traditions and Cultures
  10. Chapter Two The Universal and the Particular in African Memoirs
  11. Chapter Three The Portraiture of Womanhood in Emmanuel Babatunde’s An African Journey through Celibate Priesthood to Married Life
  12. Chapter Four Politics, Philosophical Representation, and Culture in Cherno Njie’s Sweat Is Invisible in the Rain
  13. Chapter Five The Yoruba Worldview, Meanings, and Ideals of Life in Michael Afolayan’s Fate of Our Mothers
  14. Chapter Six The Indelibility of Igbo Tradition (Home) in Kalu Ogbaa’s Carrying my Father’s Torch
  15. Chapter Seven Experiences, Reflections, and Refractions on the Cusp in A. B. Assensoh’s A Matter of Sharing
  16. Chapter Eight Toward a Spatial and Identity Synthesis: Regional Peculiarities in African Memoirs
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index