03174nam 2200493 450 991080884460332120171025092026.01-4985-6384-8(CKB)3840000000338818(MiAaPQ)EBC5217762(EXLCZ)99384000000033881820180209h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe postcolonial subject in transit migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature /edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin FalolaLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2018.©20181 online resource (162 pages)Transforming Literary Studies1-4985-6383-X Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Introduction: Transitional identity and cultural ambiguity in diasporic African literature / Delphine Fongang -- Migration and African diasporic constructions in Chimamanda N. Adichie's Americanah / Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh -- Inescapable predicament : migration and diasporic identity in Brian Chikwava's Harare North / Delphine Fongang -- Politics of migration : dreams, illusions and reality in Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods Inc. and Noviolet Bulawayo's We need new names / Bosede Funke Afolayan -- Black Americans and American Blacks : transnational identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Na'Imah H. Ford -- In search of self : Teju Cole's transcultural urban novel Open city / Igor Maver -- Entrapment and dislocation : migration and the construction of "queer" subjectivity in contemporary North African literary narratives / Gibson Ncube -- Mirror and sexuality : double oppression of African female diasporic subjects in Hannah Khoury's So pretty an African / Samuel Kamara -- "The return of the native" : discourse of the homecoming "returnee" migrant in the narratives of M. G. Vassanji / Shilpa Daithota Bhat -- Arrivals, geographies, and "the usual reply" in Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion / Nicole Stamant -- Dislocation, mimicry and the geography of home in Sefi Atta's A bit of difference / Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin -- Conclusion: emerging perspectives in African diasporic literature.Transforming literary studies.African literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican literature (English)21st centuryHistory and criticismAfrican diaspora in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureAfrican literature (English)History and criticism.African literature (English)History and criticism.African diaspora in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.820.996Fongang DelphineFalola ToyinMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808844603321The postcolonial subject in transit4079750UNINA