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Africans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain
Michael Ugarte
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What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world.
What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world.
Based on personal stories of people forced to leave and those who left of their own accord, Africans in Europe captures the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252079238
SKU
V9780252079238
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About Michael Ugarte
Michael Ugarte is Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri. His publications include Madrid 1900: The Capital as Cradle of Culture and Shifting Ground: Spanish Civil War Exile Literature.
Reviews for Africans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain
"A thorough examination of the African nation of Equatorial Guinea and its complex political, cultural, and literary history. Africans in Europe makes a definitive contribution to the burgeoning field of Afro-Spanish studies and the literature of Equatorial Guinea."
Silvia Bermudez, author of La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela "Ugarte's refined prose, playful ideas, and timely and ... Read more
Silvia Bermudez, author of La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela "Ugarte's refined prose, playful ideas, and timely and ... Read more