Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures: Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
Autor Peter Moopi, Rodwell Makombeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2023
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032578798
ISBN-10: 1032578793
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032578793
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic and PostgraduateCuprins
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
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
Notă biografică
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.
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.
Descriere
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.