Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries

ISBN-13: 9780299320546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Maya Angela Smith

Opis

Explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Understanding Global Senegalese Identity Formation through Language and Movement
• 1 What's Language Got to Do with It? Language Attitudes and Identity Formation
• 2 Speaking while Black: The Quest for Legitimacy in Exclusionary Spaces
• 3 Neither Here nor There: Reflections on National and Transnational Belonging
• 4 Leveraging Language: Multilingualism and Transnational Identity Formation
• Epilogue
• Appendices
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index