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Literary Collections Essays

Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays

Essays

by (author) James Yékú

Publisher
Griots Lounge Publishing Canada
Initial publish date
Nov 2024
Category
Essays, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781738699353
    Publish Date
    Nov 2024
    List Price
    $22.99

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Description

In Unruly Encounters, James Yékú speaks powerfully from his personal experiences as a writer and academic living outside a homeland he sometimes recaptures through his poetry and scholarship. His encounters in several cities around the world, and in different cultural and media contexts offer an entry into the ways in which we produce collective meanings from the private notes we write to ourselves. Poignant yet exciting, the essays in the collection move in different and unruly directions: while some mourn both the diaspora-imposed loss of books that immigrant scholars often face, and the devastating disappearance of an uncle who travelled to Europe through the Sahara, other pieces reflect on a persistently stereotypic image of Africa, soccer and racial politics, and Nigerian social media cultures.

About the author

Contributor Notes

James Yékú teaches in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He is the author of Where The Baedeler Leads, a collection of poems. He is a Nigerian-Canadian writer who lived in Saskatoon for six years before moving to Lawrence, Kansas.