Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures
Autor Anna-Leena Toivanenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2023
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004546738
ISBN-10: 9004546731
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
ISBN-10: 9004546731
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Notă biografică
Anna-Leena Toivanen, Ph.D. (2010), University of Jyväskylä, is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland and a former MSCA-IF Fellow. Her research on African and Afrodiasporic literatures has been published in diverse international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complex Relations, Shortcomings, and Unease
2 Mobilities, Representation, and the Literary Form
3 Outline of the Book and Chapter Summaries
PART 1
Trouble in the Business Class
1 Anxious Mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
1 Automobility: Undecidedness in the Streets of Accra
2 Hotels as In-between Spaces
3 Transnational Business Class Travel: Afropolitans avant la lettre
4 Conclusion: Freedom of Movement?
2 The Hotel as a Space of Transit in Sefi Atta’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Stories
1 Atta’s Hotel: A Chronotope of Hypermobility, Inequality, and Unbelonging
2 Adichie’s Hotel Room: Adulterous Space between the Domestic and the Public
3 Conclusion: Being in Transit, Longing for Home
3Uneasy ‘Homecoming’ in Alain Mabanckou’s Lumières de Pointe-Noire
1 Returnee: A Tourist-Native
2 Nostalgia and Loss
3 Returned Gazes, Unbalanced Dialogues
4 Blind Spot behind the Camera: La blanche
5 Conclusion: Problematics of a Business Class Return
PART 2
Budget Travels, Practical Cosmopolitanisms
4 New Technologies and Communication Gaps in Novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 Formal Matters: The Mobile Poetics of Communication Technologies
2 Technological Advances – From Letters to Email and Skype
3 Creating Distance: Communication Gaps
4 Conclusion: Ruptured Dialogues and Unbalanced Cosmopolitanisms
5 Everyday Urban Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs
1 Cartographies of Paris
2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Survival in a New Environment
3 Peripheral Dead Ends
4 Conclusion: Managing the Metropolis through Mobility
6 European Peripheries and Practical Cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor’s Faire l’aventure
1 Peripheries and the Dream of “la grosse Europe”
2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Limits and Potentials
3 Conclusion: Out of Reach? Centres and Cosmopolitan Ideals
PART 3
Abject Travels of Citizens of Nowhere
7 Failing Border Crossings and Cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
1 Cosmopolitanism as an Active Engagement
2 Instances of Anti-cosmopolitanism
3 Non-dialogue and Linguistic Nonconformity
4 Parodying the Afropolitan
5 Abject Unbelonging
6 Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism’s Breakdown
8 Arrested Clandestine Odysseys in Sefi Atta’s “Twilight Trek” and Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes
1 Erased Identities
2 Tropes of Mobility: Shoes, Trucks, and Boats
3 Sand and Sea: The Slavery Parallel
4 Conclusion: Precarious Journeys
9 Zombie Travels
J. R. Essomba’s Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
1 Tropes of Zombifying Mobilities: Hiding, Confinement, Dehumanisation, and Darkness
2 Not Feeling It: Lost Selves, Lost Emotions
3 Europe and the Failures of Cosmopolitanism
4 Eliminating the Zombie
5 Conclusion: The Poetics of Zombification
Coda
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complex Relations, Shortcomings, and Unease
2 Mobilities, Representation, and the Literary Form
3 Outline of the Book and Chapter Summaries
PART 1
Trouble in the Business Class
1 Anxious Mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
1 Automobility: Undecidedness in the Streets of Accra
2 Hotels as In-between Spaces
3 Transnational Business Class Travel: Afropolitans avant la lettre
4 Conclusion: Freedom of Movement?
2 The Hotel as a Space of Transit in Sefi Atta’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Stories
1 Atta’s Hotel: A Chronotope of Hypermobility, Inequality, and Unbelonging
2 Adichie’s Hotel Room: Adulterous Space between the Domestic and the Public
3 Conclusion: Being in Transit, Longing for Home
3Uneasy ‘Homecoming’ in Alain Mabanckou’s Lumières de Pointe-Noire
1 Returnee: A Tourist-Native
2 Nostalgia and Loss
3 Returned Gazes, Unbalanced Dialogues
4 Blind Spot behind the Camera: La blanche
5 Conclusion: Problematics of a Business Class Return
PART 2
Budget Travels, Practical Cosmopolitanisms
4 New Technologies and Communication Gaps in Novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 Formal Matters: The Mobile Poetics of Communication Technologies
2 Technological Advances – From Letters to Email and Skype
3 Creating Distance: Communication Gaps
4 Conclusion: Ruptured Dialogues and Unbalanced Cosmopolitanisms
5 Everyday Urban Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs
1 Cartographies of Paris
2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Survival in a New Environment
3 Peripheral Dead Ends
4 Conclusion: Managing the Metropolis through Mobility
6 European Peripheries and Practical Cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor’s Faire l’aventure
1 Peripheries and the Dream of “la grosse Europe”
2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Limits and Potentials
3 Conclusion: Out of Reach? Centres and Cosmopolitan Ideals
PART 3
Abject Travels of Citizens of Nowhere
7 Failing Border Crossings and Cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
1 Cosmopolitanism as an Active Engagement
2 Instances of Anti-cosmopolitanism
3 Non-dialogue and Linguistic Nonconformity
4 Parodying the Afropolitan
5 Abject Unbelonging
6 Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism’s Breakdown
8 Arrested Clandestine Odysseys in Sefi Atta’s “Twilight Trek” and Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes
1 Erased Identities
2 Tropes of Mobility: Shoes, Trucks, and Boats
3 Sand and Sea: The Slavery Parallel
4 Conclusion: Precarious Journeys
9 Zombie Travels
J. R. Essomba’s Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
1 Tropes of Zombifying Mobilities: Hiding, Confinement, Dehumanisation, and Darkness
2 Not Feeling It: Lost Selves, Lost Emotions
3 Europe and the Failures of Cosmopolitanism
4 Eliminating the Zombie
5 Conclusion: The Poetics of Zombification
Coda
Bibliography
Index