Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora Personal Memoirs ; Self-Help The eleven stories in this

The eleven stories in this collection are filled with characters who will entice and delight readers as they traverse the worlds around them

and faith under the crush of history

initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs

and inspiring in its stories of ordinary people successfully confronting powerful interests

Ruth runs the family’s multimillion-dollar peanut business

Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora Personal Memoirs ; Self-Help The eleven stories in thisIn Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African diasporic lens and negotiating it through a lakou or yard space, we can see such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy