When the Wanderers Come Home by Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh

When the Wanderers Come Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803288577)

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When the Wanderers Come Home by Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh

When the Wanderers Come Home

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When the Wanderers Come Home by Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh

When the Wanderers Come Home

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
ISBN-10: 0803288573
ISBN-13: 9780803288577
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2016
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University-Altoona. She has four other books of poetry, including Where the Road Turns and Becoming Ebony, part of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry.

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