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The postcolonial subject in transit : migration, borders, and subjectivity in contemporary African diaspora literature /
Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants' desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the W...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Transforming literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.