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In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature / / Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek
| In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature / / Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek |
| Autore | Knudsen Eva Rask |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.996 |
| Soggetto topico |
African literature (English) - 21st century - History and criticism
African diaspora in literature Africans - Race identity Group identity - Africa |
| ISBN | 1-78348-354-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798572703321 |
Knudsen Eva Rask
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| Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature / / Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek
| In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature / / Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek |
| Autore | Knudsen Eva Rask |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.996 |
| Soggetto topico |
African literature (English) - 21st century - History and criticism
African diaspora in literature Africans - Race identity Group identity - Africa |
| ISBN | 1-78348-354-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815684903321 |
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Knudsen Eva Rask
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| Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature / / edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola
| The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature / / edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.996 |
| Collana | Transforming Literary Studies |
| 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 |
| ISBN | 1-4985-6384-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796696503321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature / / edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola
| The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature / / edited by Delphine Fongang ; foreword by Toyin Falola |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.996 |
| Collana | Transforming Literary Studies |
| 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 |
| ISBN | 1-4985-6384-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808844603321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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