An edition of Mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic literatures
(2021)
Mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic literatures
by Anna-Leena Toivanen
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"In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, the author explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories of cosmopolitanism reflecting the privileged, pragmatic, and critical aspects of the concept"--
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Fiction, Black authors, History and criticism, African fiction (English), African fiction (French), American fiction, African American authors, Cosmopolitanism in literature, African diaspora in literature, Travelers in literature, Literature and transnationalismTimes
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Mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic literatures
2021, Brill Rodopi
in English
9004442723 9789004442726
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Table of Contents
Trouble in the business class. Anxious mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre : Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story
The hotel as space of transit in Sefi Atta's and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short stories
Uneasy 'homecoming' in Alain Mabanckou's Lumières de Pointe-Noire
Budget travels, practical cosmopolitanisms. New technologies and communication gaps in novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Everyday urban mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs
European peripheries and practical cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure
Abject travels of citizens of nowhere. Failing border crossings and cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava's Harare North
Arrested clandestine odysseys in Sefi Atta's "Twilight trek" and Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes
Zombie travels : J. R. Essomba's Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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