"Where the mask ends and the face begins is not certain": Mediating ethnicity and cheating geography in Jonny Steinberg's Little Liberia

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dc.contributor.authorNas, Loes
dc.date.accessioned04/04/2017 12:11
dc.date.available04/04/2017 12:11
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractMixing historical commentary, reportage, biography and personal stories, South African writer Jonny Steinberg takes up the tale of a fractured African nation and its diaspora in Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City (2011). The "little Liberia" founded in New York's urban jungle may have represented, for many of its inhabitants, a way to "cheat geography" by recreating a home away from home, but Little Liberia shows the reader it has not allowed them to cheat history. The book deals with the lives of two inhabitants of Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where nearly everyone is Liberian. Their conflict threatens to implode the community, igniting suspicions and accusations that had been bottled up since their exile. The article focuses on the interface of mediated ethnicity and citizenship related to the struggle for power in the diasporic Liberian community on Staten Island. Attention is also paid to feelings of identity of Little Liberia's author.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationNas, L. (2013). "Where the mask ends and the face begins is not certain": Mediating ethnicity and cheating geography in Jonny Steinberg's Little Liberia. Journal of Literary Studies, 29(1): 33-49en_US
dc.identifier.issn0256-4718
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2726
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2013.774176
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rightsThis the post-print version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2013.774176
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectTravel writingen_US
dc.subjectJonny Steinbergen_US
dc.subjectLiberiaen_US
dc.subjectCommunityen_US
dc.title"Where the mask ends and the face begins is not certain": Mediating ethnicity and cheating geography in Jonny Steinberg's Little Liberiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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