Title:
Always another country : a memoir of exile and home / Sisonke Msimang.
ISBN:
9781642860009
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Publication Information:
New York : World Editions, LLC, 2018.
©2017
Physical Description:
365 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- Burley Court -- S.E.X. -- Gogo Lindi -- The odour of teeth -- Kenya -- O! Canada -- The bike -- The return to South Africa -- College girl -- Black girl in America -- The fire before freedom -- Freedom -- Jason -- Folie a deux -- Home -- New blacks, old whites -- Simon -- Aids -- Amakwerekwere -- Congo Road -- Becoming a mother -- The violence -- Failure -- Why I write -- Mothers and daughters -- The end.
Summary:
"Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl's path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal story with her political awakening in America and Africa, her euphoria at returning to the new South Africa, and her disillusionment with the new elites"-- Publisher's description.
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OCLC Number:
on1030484601
Availability:
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