(Ebook) African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space by Cajetan Iheka (editor), Jack Taylor (editor) ISBN 9781580469340, 1580469345

(Ebook) African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space by Cajetan Iheka (editor), Jack Taylor (editor) ISBN 9781580469340, 1580469345

This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways in which African cultural productions shape and are shaped by the migration debates, the contributions these productions make to an understanding of globalization, and the stylistic features of the works. The texts analyzed here include important recent writings and films that have yet to receive considerable scholarly attention, by artists such as Chimamanda Adichie, Teju Cole, Leila Aboulela, Noo Saro-Wiwa, and Marzek Allouache.Current scholarship on migration largely focuses on the journey from Third World spaces to the First World, thereby radically limiting our understanding of migratory flows. This project works against this lopsided analysis of migration and considers narratives of return as central to migratory flows. The book also invests in underanalyzed and underrepresented diasporas on the continent including the Lusophone and Indian diasporas. Unlike much scholarship on migration in African cultural studies, which tends to focus primarily on a genre (literature), a region, or a specific language, the current book emphasizes Africa's geographical and linguistic diversity by being attentive to Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone areas, as well as an array of texts encompassing various genres.CAJETAN IHEKA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Paradigm Shift: The Migration Turn in African Cultural ProductionsHarragas, Global Subjects, and Failed Deterritorializations: The Tragedies of Illegal Mediterranean Crossings in Maghrebi CinemaNollywood Comedies and Visa Lotteries: Welfare States, Borders, and Migration as Random InvitationAccented Cinema: Chineze Anyaene's Ije: The JourneyMigrations and Representations: The Cinema by the Griot Dani KouyatéMamiwata, Migrations, and Miscegenation: Transculturalism in Mia Couto, José Agualusa, and Germano AlmeidaPoor Migrant: Poverty and Striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's People and The Pickup(Re-)imaging Blackness : The Visual Landscapes of El Carmen, a Peruvian DistrictReading Space, Subjectivity, and Form in the Twenty-First Century Narrative of ReturnLooking for Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the HeartThe Literary Circulation of Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the ThiefSpeculative Migration and the Project of Futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa ParadisMonkeys from Hell, Toubabs in AfricaMapping (Sacred) Space in Leila Aboulela's FictionVoice of the Cosmopolitan NomadEsiaba Irobi: Poetry at the MarginsBibliography