African migration narratives : politics, race, and space /: politics, race, and space. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor.
• Editors: Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze; Taylor, Jack, 1982-
• Contents: Introduction: The migration turn in African cultural productions / Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor -- African migration on the screen : films of migration -- Harragas, global subjects, and failed deterritorializations : the tragedies of illegal Mediterranean crossings in Maghrebi cinema / Vaĺerie K. Orlando -- Nollywood comedies and visa lotteries : welfare states, borders, and migration as random invitation / Matthew H. Brown -- Accented cinema : the context of Nollywood / Babatunde Onikoyi -- Migrations and representations : the cinema of Griot Dani Kouyat? / Daniela Ricci -- Forgotten diasporas : Lusophone and Indian diasporas -- Mami Wata, migrations, and miscegenation : transculturalism in Jośe Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida / Niyi Afolabi -- Poor migrant : poverty and striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's people and The pickup / S. Shankar -- Reimaging Blackness in a hybridized and racialized space : the visual landscapes of the Peruvian district of El Carmen, Chincha / Gilbert Shang Ndi -- Migration against the grain : narratives of return -- Reading space, subjectivity, and form in the twenty-first-century narrative of return / Madhu Krishnan -- Looking for Transwonderland : Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the heart / Toni Pressley-Sanon -- The literary circulation of Teju Cole's Every day is for the thief / Connor Ryan -- Speculative migration and the project of futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa paradis / MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins -- Migration and difference : indigeneity, race, religion, and poetry at the margins -- Monkeys from hell, Toubabs in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Mapping "sacred" space in Leila Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Andrew H. Armstrong -- Waris Dirie, FGM, and the authentic voice / John C. Hawley -- Esiaba Irobi : poetry at the margins / Isidore Diala.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 310 pages)
• Subjects: 700/.45296; African diaspora -- History -- 21st century; African diaspora in literature; Africans in motion pictures; Africans -- Migrations -- History -- 21st century; Return migration -- Africa; Return migration in literature; Return migration in motion pictures; African diaspora; African diaspora in literature; Africans in motion pictures; Africans -- Migrations; Return migration; Return migration in literature; Return migration in motion pictures; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; Africa; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787444102; 1787444104; 9781787444119; 1787444112
• Related ISBNs: 9781580469340; 1580469345
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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