When the Wanderers Come Home
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When the Wanderers Come Home

  1. 126 pages
  2. English
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When the Wanderers Come Home

About this book

Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of a homeland still reconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction.
 
Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a diaspora African and the devastation of a country and continent struggling to recover.
 
When the Wanderers Come Home is a woman’s story about being an exile, a survivor, and an outsider in her own country; it is her cry for the Africa that is being lost in wars across the continent, creating more wanderers and world citizens.
 

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780803288577
eBook ISBN
9780803295018
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Book I. Coming Home
  10. So I Stand Here
  11. What Took Us to War
  12. Erecting Stones
  13. Looters of War
  14. Coming Home
  15. Send Me Some Black Clothes
  16. I Need Two Bodies
  17. The Creation
  18. And You Tell Me This Is a Funeral?
  19. Loss
  20. If You Have Never Been Married
  21. Becoming Ghost
  22. The Killed Ones
  23. The Cities We Lost
  24. A City of Ghosts
  25. July Rain
  26. I Go Home
  27. Song for Mariam Makeba
  28. When Monrovia Rises
  29. This Is the Real Leaving
  30. Book II. Colliding Worlds
  31. In My Dream
  32. Sometimes, I Close My Eyes
  33. Sandy
  34. Tsunami
  35. For My Children, Growing Up in America
  36. You Wouldn’t Let Me Adopt My Dog
  37. When I Grow Up
  38. The Inequality of Dogs
  39. Medellin from My Hotel Room Balcony
  40. Morocco, on the Way to London
  41. To Libya
  42. Sometimes I Wonder
  43. The Deer on My Lawn
  44. Leaves Are Leaving Us Again
  45. Book III. World (Un)/Breakable
  46. I Want to Be the Woman
  47. This Morning
  48. When I Was a Girl
  49. I’m Afraid of Emptiness
  50. Silence
  51. I Want Everything
  52. Finally, the Allergist
  53. I Dreamed
  54. On the Midnight Train
  55. First Class
  56. This Is Facebook
  57. A Room with a View
  58. Braiding Hair
  59. Losing Hair
  60. Hair
  61. 2014, My Mamma Never Knew You
  62. About Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
  63. Series List