| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Transforming literary studies
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Transforming literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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African literature (English) |
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20th century |
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African literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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21st century |
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African diaspora in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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African diaspora in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Fongang, Delphine, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Postcolonial subject in transit. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498563833 (DLC) 2017050344 |
| ISBN |
9781498563840 (electronic book) |
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1498563848 (electronic book) |
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9781498563833 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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