Diasporic Romances Gone Bad: Impossible Returns to Africa in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane, Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père
Toivanen, Anna-Leena
2013 • In Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49 (4), p. 432-444
Toivanen, Anna-Leena ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues et littératures modernes > Littérature anglaise moderne et littérature américaine
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Diasporic Romances Gone Bad: Impossible Returns to Africa in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane, Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père
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