Imagining futures: memory and belonging in an African family

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Celebrating Home and Family Unity: The 2016 Yob Homecoming Festival -- Chapter 2. Remembering the Ancestors: Family Anecdotes, "Quarrel Stories," and Migration and Settlement Narratives -- Chapter 3. Con...

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Hauptverfasser: Lentz, Carola 1954- (VerfasserIn), Lobnibe, Isidore (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Celebrating Home and Family Unity: The 2016 Yob Homecoming Festival -- Chapter 2. Remembering the Ancestors: Family Anecdotes, "Quarrel Stories," and Migration and Settlement Narratives -- Chapter 3. Constructing an Ancestral Heritage: The First Literate Family Member's Politics of Memory -- Chapter 4. Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Labor Migration, Heroic Tales, and Mocking Songs -- Chapter 5. Creating a New Order: Christian Models of Family Life -- Chapter 6. Social Mobility and Moral Obligations: Remembering Educational Trajectories -- Chapter 7. Urban Nostalgia for Ancestral Traditions: New Genres of Family Memory -- Chapter 8. Making a Good Name for the Family: Funerals, Memory, and Public Prestige -- Chapter 9. Stemming the Tide of Dispersal: The Young Generation's Understandings of Family and Memory Practices -- Chapter 10. Unfinished Business: Remembering for the Future -- References -- Index.
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 275 Seiten)
ISBN:9780253060181