Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures

ISBN-13: 9781032578798 / Twarda / 2023 / 176 str.

Rodwell Makombe

Opis

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.

　

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.