LEADER 03174nam 2200493 450 001 9910808844603321 005 20171025092026.0 010 $a1-4985-6384-8 035 $a(CKB)3840000000338818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5217762 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000338818 100 $a20180209h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe postcolonial subject in transit $emigration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature /$fedited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) 225 1 $aTransforming Literary Studies 311 $a1-4985-6383-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Transitional identity and cultural ambiguity in diasporic African literature / Delphine Fongang -- Migration and African diasporic constructions in Chimamanda N. Adichie's Americanah / Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh -- Inescapable predicament : migration and diasporic identity in Brian Chikwava's Harare North / Delphine Fongang -- Politics of migration : dreams, illusions and reality in Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods Inc. and Noviolet Bulawayo's We need new names / Bosede Funke Afolayan -- Black Americans and American Blacks : transnational identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Na'Imah H. Ford -- In search of self : Teju Cole's transcultural urban novel Open city / Igor Maver -- Entrapment and dislocation : migration and the construction of "queer" subjectivity in contemporary North African literary narratives / Gibson Ncube -- Mirror and sexuality : double oppression of African female diasporic subjects in Hannah Khoury's So pretty an African / Samuel Kamara -- "The return of the native" : discourse of the homecoming "returnee" migrant in the narratives of M. G. Vassanji / Shilpa Daithota Bhat -- Arrivals, geographies, and "the usual reply" in Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion / Nicole Stamant -- Dislocation, mimicry and the geography of home in Sefi Atta's A bit of difference / Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin -- Conclusion: emerging perspectives in African diasporic literature. 410 0$aTransforming literary studies. 606 $aAfrican literature (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican literature (English)$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican diaspora in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 615 0$aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a820.996 702 $aFongang$b Delphine 702 $aFalola$b Toyin 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808844603321 996 $aThe postcolonial subject in transit$94079750 997 $aUNINA