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Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature pp 37–46Cite as

A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography

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  1. Department of English and Literature, University of Benin., Bennin, Nigeria

    Tony E. Afejuku

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  1. The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, NH, U.S.A

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Afejuku, T.E. (2007). A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature. Analecta Husserliana, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5331-2_4

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