African Migration Narratives (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Race, and Space
Redaktion: Iheka, Cajetan; Taylor, Jack

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration

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 shaped by the migration debates, the contributions these productions make to an understanding of globalization, and the stylistic features of the works. The texts analyzed here include important recent writings and films that have yet to receive considerable scholarly attention, by artists such as Chimamanda Adichie, Teju Cole, Leila Aboulela, Noo Saro-Wiwa, and Marzek Allouache.

Current scholarship on migration largely focuses on the journey from Third World spaces to the First World, thereby radically limiting our understanding of migratory flows. This project works against this lopsided analysis ofmigration and considers narratives of return as central to migratory flows. The book also invests in underanalyzed and underrepresented diasporas on the continent including the Lusophone and Indian diasporas. Unlike much scholarship on migration in African cultural studies, which tends to focus primarily on a genre (literature), a region, or a specific language, the current book emphasizes Africa's geographical and linguistic diversity by being attentive to Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone areas, as well as an array of texts encompassing various genres.

CAJETAN IHEKA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professorof English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787444119
• Artikelnr.: 55025713

Autorenporträt

Cajetan Iheka, Jack Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Paradigm Shift: The Migration Turn in African Cultural
Productions Harragas, Global Subjects, and Failed Deterritorializations:
The Tragedies of Illegal Mediterranean Crossings in Maghrebi Cinema
Nollywood Comedies and Visa Lotteries: Welfare States, Borders, and
Migration as Random Invitation Accented Cinema: Chineze Anyaene's Ije: The
Journey Migrations and Representations: The Cinema by the Griot Dani
Kouyaté Mamiwata, Migrations, and Miscegenation: Transculturalism in Mia
Couto, José Agualusa, and Germano Almeida Poor Migrant: Poverty and
Striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's People and The Pickup (Re-)imaging
Blackness : The Visual Landscapes of El Carmen, a Peruvian District Reading
Space, Subjectivity, and Form in the Twenty-First Century Narrative of
Return Looking for Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the Heart
The Literary Circulation of Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief
Speculative Migration and the Project of Futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's
Africa Paradis Monkeys from Hell, Toubabs in Africa Mapping (Sacred) Space
in Leila Aboulela's Fiction Voice of the Cosmopolitan Nomad Esiaba Irobi:
Poetry at the Margins Bibliography