African Migration Narratives : Politics, Race, and Space /

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This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways in which African cultural productions shape and are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Taylor, Jack, 1982- (Editor ), Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Return migration in motion pictures.
Return migration in literature.
Return migration > Africa.
Africans > Migrations > History > 21st century.
Africans in motion pictures.
African diaspora in literature.
African diaspora > History > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The migration turn in African cultural productions / Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor
  • African migration on the screen : films of migration
  • Harragas, global subjects, and failed deterritorializations : the tragedies of illegal Mediterranean crossings in Maghrebi cinema / VaÍerie K. Orlando
  • Nollywood comedies and visa lotteries : welfare states, borders, and migration as random invitation / Matthew H. Brown
  • Accented cinema : the context of Nollywood / Babatunde Onikoyi
  • Migrations and representations : the cinema of Griot Dani Kouyat? / Daniela Ricci
  • Forgotten diasporas : Lusophone and Indian diasporas
  • Mami Wata, migrations, and miscegenation : transculturalism in Jośe Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida / Niyi Afolabi
  • Poor migrant : poverty and striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's people and The pickup / S. Shankar
  • Reimaging Blackness in a hybridized and racialized space : the visual landscapes of the Peruvian district of El Carmen, Chincha / Gilbert Shang Ndi
  • Migration against the grain : narratives of return
  • Reading space, subjectivity, and form in the twenty-first-century narrative of return / Madhu Krishnan
  • Looking for Transwonderland : Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the heart / Toni Pressley-Sanon
  • The literary circulation of Teju Cole's Every day is for the thief / Connor Ryan
  • Speculative migration and the project of futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa paradis / MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins
  • Migration and difference : indigeneity, race, religion, and poetry at the margins
  • Monkeys from hell, Toubabs in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow
  • Mapping "sacred" space in Leila Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Andrew H. Armstrong
  • Waris Dirie, FGM, and the authentic voice / John C. Hawley
  • Esiaba Irobi : poetry at the margins / Isidore Diala.

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