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Volume 39: Issue 2
Exile and narration of self/communal in Syl Cheney-Coker’s Concerto for an Exile
Author:
Henri Oripeloye Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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Pages:
423–438
Online Publication Date:
13 Jul 2012
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2012
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-012-0145-x
Keywords:
Cheney-Coker; Concerto for an Exile; Autobiographer; Exile; Community
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Abstract  

This essay discusses how exilic narration is used to explore personal and communal experience by Syl Cheney-Coker in Concerto for an Exile. It also focuses on how an autobiographer becomes a representative construct of a community in the process of telling personal tales as could be seen in the exposition of displacement orchestrated by colonial and postcolonial tendencies in Sierra-Leone. The poet juxtaposes the historical template of Sierra-Leone and his exilic experience to place on record the moral, cultural, political and economic consequences of colonial domination. The essay maintains that there is a noticeable symbiotic relationship between a writer and the site of his/her artistic production and that exilic narration privileges the autobiographical mode as it draws from personal experience to accentuate the collective interest of a community.

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