Foreword
Toyin Falola
Introduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature
Delphine Fongang
Part I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing
1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie's Americanah
Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh
2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwava's Harare North
Delphine Fongang
3. Politics of Migration: Dreams, Illusions and Reality in Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods Inc. and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names.
Bosede Funke Afolayan
Part II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities
4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
Na'Imah H. Ford
5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open City
Igor Maver
6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of "Queer" Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives
Gibson Ncube
7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury's So Pretty an African
Samuel Kamara
Part III: Reconnecting with the Homeland
8. "The Return of the Native": Discourse of the Homecoming 'Returnee' Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. Vassanji
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
9. Arrivals, Geographies, and "The Usual Reply" in Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion
Nicole Stamant
10. Dislocation, Mimicry and the Geography of Home in Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference
Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin
Conclusion: Emerging Perspectives in African Diasporic Literature
Delphine Fongang
