Peter Moopi, Rodwell Makombe

Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000968590
• Artikelnr.: 68610921

Autorenporträt

Peter Moopi is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (2018-2019), the University of Michigan's Presidential Scholarship Programme (UMAPS) (2022) and a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Decolonial migrations in African diasporic literatures
1. Coloniality, migrancy and the African migrant experience in literatures
of migration
2. Coloniality of being and the immigrant experience in No-Violet
Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013)
3. Race and Coloniality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013)
4. The violence of modernity: Race, Class, and the everyday immigrant
experience in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers (2016)
5. Black-on-black Violence, Estrangement, Home, Belonging, and the
Coloniality of Being in Dave Eggers' What is the What: The Autobiography of
Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
6. Coloniality of migration and the racialised immigrant in Helon Habila's
Travellers (2019)
7. Coloniality, (i)mmobility and African migrancy