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The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
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2010
Summary
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant literary tradition: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. By studying these women together, Ayo A. Coly innovatively introduces gender into prevailing theories of Francophone African migrant literatures. These theories, in line with the current surge of postnationalism in cultural criticism, claim that questions of home and nationhood are obsolete for the present generation of Francophone African migrant writers, but this book shows that the opposite is true in the texts of these writers. Coly is thus able to demonstrate how claims of postnationalism are often skewed by gender-blind understandings of nationalism, namely a failure to consider that women have traditionally been the sites for discourses and practices of nationalism. Amid the negative currency of home and nation in contemporary cultural criticism, including postcolonial criticism, this book contends that home remains a politically, ideologically, and emotionally loaded matter for postcolonial subjects.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4511-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4513-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
147
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: The (Non-)Place of the Daughter of the Postcolonial House No access
Chapter 2: No Place Like the Non-Place No access
Chapter 3: Aborted Postnationalism? No access
Chapter 4: (Un)Writing France as Home No access
Chapter 5: From African guest to Afro-French Hostess No access
Chapter 6: Globalization and the Revival of the Anticolonial and Nationalist Narrative of Home No access
Chapter 7: Bounded Homelessness as a Strategy No access
