Afropean Female Selves
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African…
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Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe and Africa in different languages (French and Italian). Their work involves episodes from their lived experience and complicates Western understandings of life writing and autobiography. As Hogarth shows in this study, the works of Diome and Scego encapsulate the new and complex identities of contemporary Afropeans. As an identity coined and used frequently by prominent authors and critics across Europe, Africa and North America, the notion of Afropean is at the cutting edge of cultural analyses today. Yet each writer occupies unique and different positions within this debated category. While Scego is a
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