Homeland Nostalgia: The Cook's Soup Pot

ISBN-13: 9780976065944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 50 str.

Tochi Brown

Opis

The unsettling experience of coming home to what no longer, or not quite exists in the same form, is not the sole preserve of Nigerians or Africans. It is a universal phenomenon, commonly reported by immigrants who visit their original homelands. Having been away for so long, memories of what used to be contrasted starkly with what actually obtained. Sometimes this change is welcome; often times, it is dismaying. Homeland Nostlagia: The Cook's Soup Pot is a collage of spontaneous reflections that arose from the author's visit to her motherland in 2014. For her, the lines between fact, fiction and fantasy quickly became blurred as she observed how the people continually told, compared and enacted the stories of their lives. It will make you laugh, think and wonder. To cap it all, meeting with several Nigerian poets, writers and artists inspired her to succinctly put - to digital paper - her experiences of the contemporary culture as a 'foreigner' for the delight and contemplation of her readers.