LEADER 04604nam 22006375 450 001 9910997189803321 005 20251009225013.0 010 $a3-031-89303-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-89303-2 035 $a(CKB)38672118700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-89303-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32077039 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32077039 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938672118700041 100 $a20250429d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures /$fby Anna-Leena Toivanen 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 267 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture,$x2946-4846 311 08$a3-031-89302-6 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Educational mobilities in the metropolis -- Chapter 3: Mobilities of African and Afroeuropean leisure travelers -- Chapter 4: Mobile ?homecomings? from Europe to Africa -- Chapter 5: Work, labor, and Afroeuropean (im)mobilities -- Chapter 6: Clandestine Afroeuropean itineraries. 330 $a"Engaging Francophone African literary texts, this book challenges reductive readings of postcolonial mobility in migration and diaspora studies. Its complex framing of Afroeuropean mobilities surfaces educational, professional, leisure, urban and other mobilities obscured by otherwise dominant imaginaries of the clandestine African migrant." ?Polo B. Moji, Author of Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (2022), University of Cape Town, South Africa "This is the first book to bring together the new mobilities paradigm with postcolonial African literature. Toivanen deftly analyses a wide range of embodied experiences, spaces, vehicles and creative practices of mobility within Afroeuropean fiction. From clandestine migration to everyday commuting, from tourism to diasporic return, she opens a refreshed mobile perspective on a rich body of Francophone literature that will be of great interest to both mobility scholars and literary scholars." ?Mimi Sheller, Dean of The Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA This open access book contributes to the mobility humanities from the perspective of postcolonial literary mobilities and aims at enhancing dialogue between mobilities research and postcolonial literary studies. The study produces new perspectives on Afroeuropean mobilities in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures from the mid-twentieth century to the present, covering a wide set of texts across literary genres. Focusing on representations of educational travel, tourism, diasporic returns, work-related mobilities, and clandestine migratory journeys, Toivanen examines portrayals of mobility practices and modes of transport to map out the meanings of embodied (im)mobilities in the Afroeuropean context. In addition to thematic analysis, the volume also explores the manifestations of mobility in literary form. Anna-Leena Toivanen is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland. She is the author of Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (2021) and co-editor of Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism (2024). 410 0$aStudies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture,$x2946-4846 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aAfrican literature (French)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aAfrican literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a809.896 700 $aToivanen$b Anna-Leena$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01787333 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910997189803321 996 $aAfroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures$94375233 997 $aUNINA