Autobiomythography of Binding:Paperback forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist

forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate

The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains

"Just for self-defense

Dimple’s life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen

The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to

Autobiomythography of Binding:Paperback forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralistAutobiomythography of sifts through Nigerian stories and mythologies, both inherited and invented, to explore the self, family, and nationhood. In an attempt at decolonization, it is an exploration of what it means to be a subjecta person, yes, but also a literary subjectin the wake and afterlife of colonization. Intimate and personal, it is interested in figuring out how to wrest subjectivityones notion of selffrom this failed project of modernity.