The Postcolonial Subject in Transit : Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature /: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Delphine Fongang, Toyin Falola, Bosede Funke Afolayan, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Na'Imah Ford, Henry Kah Jick, Samuel Kamara, Igor Maver, Gibson Ncube, Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin, Nicole Stamant, Kelvin Ngong Toh.
• Editors: Fongang, Delphine
• Other Names: Falola, Toyin writer of supplementary textual content.; Afolayan, Bosede Funke contributor.; Bhat, Shilpa Daithota contributor.; Ford, Na'Imah contributor.; Jick, Henry Kah contributor.; Kamara, Samuel contributor.; Maver, Igor contributor.; Ncube, Gibson contributor.; Ogunyankin, Grace Adeniyi contributor.; Stamant, Nicole contributor.; Toh, Kelvin Ngong contributor.
• Contents: Foreword ; Toyin Falola <span style="font-weight:bold;"> ; ; Introduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature ; Delphine Fongang ; ; Part I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing ; ; 1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Americanah ; Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh ; ; 2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwava’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Harare North ; Delphine Fongang ; ; 3. Politics of Migration: Dreams, Illusions and Reality in Okey Ndibe’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Foreign Gods Inc. and NoViolet Bulawayo’s <span style="font-style:italic;">We Need New Names . ; Bosede Funke Afolayan ; ; Part II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities ; ; 4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Americanah ; Na’Imah H. Ford ; ; 5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel <span style="font-style:italic;">Open City ; Igor Maver ; ; 6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of “Queer” Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives ; Gibson Ncube ; ; 7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury’s <span style="font-style:italic;">So Pretty an African ; Samuel Kamara ; ; Part III: Reconnecting with the Homeland ; ; 8. <span style="font-style:italic;">“The Return of the Native” : Discourse of the Homecoming ‘Returnee’ Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. Vassanji ; Shilpa Daithota Bhat ; ; 9. Arrivals, Geographies, and “The Usual Reply” in Emily Raboteau’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Searching for Zion ; Nicole Stamant ; ; 10. Dislocation, Mimicry and the Geography of Home in Sefi Atta’s <span style="font-style:italic;">A Bit of Difference ; Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin ; ; Conclusion: Emerging Perspectives in African Diasporic Literature ; Delphine Fongang
• Publisher Details: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism: Modern / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498563840; 1498563848
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