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 West.
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 West.
Delphine Fongang is lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
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Foreword Toyin Falola Introduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature Delphine Fongang Part I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing 1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie's Americanah Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh 2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwava's Harare North Delphine Fongang 3. 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 Part II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities 4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah Na'Imah H. Ford 5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open City Igor Maver 6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of "Queer" Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives Gibson Ncube 7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury's So Pretty an African Samuel Kamara Part III: Reconnecting with the Homeland 8. "The Return of the Native": Discourse of the Homecoming 'Returnee' Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. Vassanji Shilpa Daithota Bhat 9. Arrivals, Geographies, and "The Usual Reply" in Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion Nicole Stamant 10. 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 Delphine Fongang
Foreword Toyin Falola Introduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature Delphine Fongang Part I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing 1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie's Americanah Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh 2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwava's Harare North Delphine Fongang 3. 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 Part II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities 4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah Na'Imah H. Ford 5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open City Igor Maver 6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of "Queer" Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives Gibson Ncube 7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury's So Pretty an African Samuel Kamara Part III: Reconnecting with the Homeland 8. "The Return of the Native": Discourse of the Homecoming 'Returnee' Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. Vassanji Shilpa Daithota Bhat 9. Arrivals, Geographies, and "The Usual Reply" in Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion Nicole Stamant 10. 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 Delphine Fongang
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