The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature / / edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola
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| Titolo: |
The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature / / edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018 |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.996 |
| Soggetto topico: | African literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
| African literature (English) - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| African diaspora in literature | |
| Postcolonialism in literature | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | FongangDelphine |
| FalolaToyin | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The postcolonial subject in transit |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-6384-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808844603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Transforming literary studies.