The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature

Delphine Fongang

doi:10.5771/9781498563840

Summary

The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to self-realization and empowerment.

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-6383-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-6384-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 162
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Contemporary Diasporic African Writers Capturing The Migrant Experience No access
2. The Essays In This Collection No access
3. References No access
1. 1. The Question Of Contact No access
  2. Nigeria: Chasing Its Best Resources No access
  3. Glocalism: The Multicultural Option In No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
2. 1. References No access
3. 1. Dreams, Reality, And Shattered Hopes In Okey Ndibe’s No access
  2. Hope Deferred, Disillusionment, And Travails In A Strange Land In Noviolet Bulawayo’s No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. References No access
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3. 1. Notes No access
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4. 1. Trope Of Mirror/mirroring No access
  2. Eyes And Faces As Mirror No access
  3. Female Sexuality No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Narrating Home And Diasporic Subjectivity No access
  3. Identity And Subjectivity No access
  4. Colonialism And Memory In Returnee Discourse No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Acknowledgments No access
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3. 1. Deola: “home” As Point Of Origin No access
  2. Bandele: In Search Of Home No access
  3. Subu: Home Away From “home” No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
1. References No access
Index No access Pages 157 - 158
About the Contributors No access Pages 159 - 162