Migration And Return In Modern African Literature
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Migration And Return In Modern African Literature
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Author : Ernest Cole
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2025
Migration And Return In Modern African Literature written by Ernest Cole and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with History categories.
Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment and the impulse to return. The experiences of African migrants in the diaspora are deeply inflected by the condition of living as Black bodies in white spaces. In this work, author Ernest Cole examines closely the narratives of migration and return presented in nine powerful novels by authors who include Chimamanda Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Teju Cole and others. The novels reveal a reversal of expectations that migrants from Africa experience upon arrival in the West, a reversal prompted in part by the racial prejudice they are confronted with as Black individuals. As the author notes, the novels also illustrate the desire to return to the homeland as a better alternative to the precarious life in the West, even though such a move is not without its complications. The study is divided into three parts with seven chapters. The first two chapters deal with the reasons for the departure of migrants from the continent, the next two depict the experiences of migrants in the West, and the last three focus on contemplations of the return journey home. Collectively, the chapters lay out three phases in the migration process: departure from home, disillusionment in the West, and return to the country of origin. Within this framework, the book uses displacement and dislocation to examine a host of themes--social alienation, alterity and the precarity of Africans in the diaspora.
Migration And Return In Modern African Literature
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Author : Ernest Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025
Migration And Return In Modern African Literature written by Ernest Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with African fiction (English) categories.
"Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment, and the impulse to return. The experiences of African migrants in the diaspora are deeply inflected by the condition of living as Black bodies in white spaces. In this work, author Ernest Cole examines closely the narratives of migration and return presented in nine powerful novels by authors who include Chimamanda Andichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Teju Cole, and others. The novels reveal a reversal of expectations that migrants from Africa experience upon arrival in the West, a reversal prompted in part by the racial prejudice they are confronted with as Black individuals. As the author notes, the novels also illustrate the desire to return to the homeland as a better alternative to the precarious life in the West, even though such a move is not without its complications. The study is divided into two parts with seven chapters. The first three chapters deal with the novels' depictions of migrants' experiences in the West and the last four focus on the journey home. Collectively, the chapters lay out three phases in the migration process: departure from home, disillusionment in the West, and return to the country of origin. Within this framework, the book uses displacement and dislocation to examine a host of themes-social alienation, alterity, and the precarity of Africans in the diaspora"--
Diaspora Returns In Fiction
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Author : Helen Cousins
language : en
Publisher: James Currey is
Release Date : 2016
Diaspora Returns In Fiction written by Helen Cousins and has been published by James Currey is this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.
Critical Engagements On African Literature
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Author : Abba A. Abba
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Critical Engagements On African Literature written by Abba A. Abba and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beyond the critical examination of Isidore Diala’s award-winning poetry and drama, the essays in this collection offer fresh insights on the complex methodological and theoretical patterns underlying the readings of African literary landscapes. This is the first book to devote considerable attention to the study of Diala’s creative works The Pyre (drama) and The Lure of Ash (poetry). The majority of the contributors here are selected from among the finest of Diala’s former teachers, colleagues and students who know him very closely. The collection addresses fertile areas of African literary expression, such as the relationship between literature and national history, African ritual aesthetics; affirmation, denial and ambivalence as products of social constructions; and exile, migration and home-coming. Contributions also explore poetry and poetic truths; semiotics; anticolonial revolutions and postcolonial implosions; oil politics; discontent and militancy; and feminism and gender politics. The book stands out among its peers, and offers great insights to scholars, researchers and teachers working in the fields of African literature, cultures and aesthetics.
Aeromobilities
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Author : Saulo Cwerner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Aeromobilities written by Saulo Cwerner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Social Science categories.
Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to enhance our understanding of space, time and mobility in the age of mass air travel. From Sao Paulo to Sydney, Aeromobilities draws on local experiences of airspaces to generate theory and research that are global in scope. It is the first book of its kind, bringing together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to aviation and air travel in the social sciences and humanities, while emphasizing the central role of aeromobilities in contemporary social relations. In a world where virtually every aspect of social life is touched upon, in one way or another, by the complex global network of airline flows, with its large passenger aircraft and iconic international airports, Aeromobilities provides innovative analyses of some of the most fundamental and influential mobility networks of our time.
The Migration Experience In Africa
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Author : Jonathan Baker
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 1995
The Migration Experience In Africa written by Jonathan Baker and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.
South Africa, by Christian M. Rogerson
We Need New Names
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Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2013-05-21
We Need New Names written by NoViolet Bulawayo and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Fiction categories.
This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review). Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. "Original, witty, and devastating." —People
Mobilities And Cosmopolitanisms In African And Afrodiasporic Literatures
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Author : Anna-Leena Toivanen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-03-01
Mobilities And Cosmopolitanisms In African And Afrodiasporic Literatures written by Anna-Leena Toivanen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, Anna-Leena Toivanen explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories of cosmopolitanism reflecting the privileged, pragmatic, and critical aspects of the concept. The main scientific contribution of Toivanen’s book is its attempt to enhance dialogue between postcolonial literary studies and mobilities research. The book criticises reductive understandings of ‘mobility’ as a synonym for migration, and problematises frequently made links between mobility and cosmopolitanism. Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms adopts a comparative approach to Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures, often discussed separately despite their common themes and parallel paths.
Hip Hop In Africa
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Author : Msia Kibona Clark
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
Release Date : 2018
Hip Hop In Africa written by Msia Kibona Clark and has been published by Ohio University Center for International Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with MUSIC categories.
Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa's biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African realities. A tribute to a genre and its artists, Hip-Hop in Africa details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa and pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions.
New Voices Of Muslim North African Migrants In Europe
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Author : Cristián H. Ricci
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-08-26
New Voices Of Muslim North African Migrants In Europe written by Cristián H. Ricci and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
New Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe captures the experience in writing of a fast growing number of individuals belonging to migrant communities in Europe. The book follows attempts to transform postcolonial literary studies into a comparative, translingual, and supranational project. Cristián H. Ricci frames Moroccan literature written in European languages within the ampler context of borderland studies. The author addresses the realm of a literature that has been practically absent from the field of postcolonial literary studies (i.e. Neerlandophone or Gay Muslim literature). The book also converses with other minor literatures and theories from Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Asians and Latino/as in the Americas that combine histories of colonization, labor migration, and enforced exile.