Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures write by Peter Moopi. This book was released on 2023-10-06. Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The book deploys the concept of coloniality of migrancy to explore how global coloniality continues to shape the identities and lived experiences of African immigrants as represented in African diasporic literatures. It considers the persistence of racist and discriminatory attitudes and patterns of thought that developed during slavery and colonialism, and asks to what extent it is possible for African immigrants to transcend race in their configuration of their identity. Five key twenty-first century African diasporic novels are considered in the analysis: Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, Dave Eggers’ What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Helon Habila’s Travellers. Overall, the book demonstrates that despite the hostility migrants of colour encounter, Africans are shunning the victimhood of colonialism and slavery and finding alternative ways of navigating and inhabiting the modern world. Foregrounding the usefulness of decoloniality and postcolonial theory as theoretical tools, this book will be an invaluable resource to researchers across the fields of African literature, migration, sociology, politics, and decolonial studies.
Africa, Europe and (post)colonialism
Africa, Europe and (post)colonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa, Europe and (post)colonialism write by Susan Arndt. This book was released on 2006. Africa, Europe and (post)colonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Migrant Sites
Migrant Sites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrant Sites write by Dalia Kandiyoti. This book was released on 2009. Migrant Sites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A unique comparative study of immigrant and diaspora literatures in America
The Postcolonial Subject in Transit
The Postcolonial Subject in Transit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Subject in Transit write by Delphine Fongang. This book was released on 2018-01-19. The Postcolonial Subject in Transit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to self-realization and empowerment.
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature write by Lokangaka Losambe. This book was released on 2024-05-16. The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
