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- From Home and Exile: A Negotiation of Ideas about Home in Malawian Poetry
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
This book is about home. With Malawi as its focus, it seeks to understand ideas about home as expressed through poetry written by Malawians in English. Although African Literatures are studied those of Malawi have not received agreeable attention. This book surveys poetry by five Malawian writers � Felix Mnthali, Frank Chipasula, Jack Mapanje, Lupenga Mphande, and Steve Chimombo. The discussion negotiates scribed experience of exile, engendered by Dr. Banda�s regime, and shows that the selected poets effectively converse with a sense of home, reflecting on its transformations in their work. Interrogating the strict definitions of home, the argument highlights that far from home-less exiles in fact clarify the sense of what �home� is. The manoeuvre is one of thinking towards an unboundaried �home�. This book will be of value not only to readers interested in the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in worldwide literary phenomena, and ideas therein of home and exile.
Table of Contents
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- Abstract Note
- pp. v-vi
- Chapter I: Introduction
- a) Home and Exile
- pp. 1-5
- b) Discussion
- pp. 5-7
- c) Chapter Overview
- pp. 7-8
- Chapter 2: Methods and Multiple Spaces of Study
- a) My Research
- pp. 9-14
- b) Limitations and delimitations
- pp. 14-20
- Chapter 3: Home, Exile and The Self: The Negotiation of Concepts
- a) Ideas about Home
- pp. 21-30
- Chapter 4: The Context: Malawi as place, its history and its people
- b) The Poets
- p. 66
- Felix Mnthali
- pp. 66-68
- Frank Chipasula
- pp. 68-69
- Jack Mapanje
- pp. 69-71
- Lupenga Mphande
- p. 71
- Steve Chimombo
- pp. 71-72
- Conclusion: A Reflection on Research Findings and Spaces of Study
- Literature as a means of constructing 'home'
- pp. 140-142
- Concluding Remarks
- p. 148
- Bibliography
- pp. 211-227
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956792306
Related ISBN(s)
9789956792771
MARC Record
OCLC
903985857
Pages
236
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-24
Language
English
Open Access
No