African Migration and the Novel
Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2024
224 pages
978-1-80543-284-5 (ISBN)
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Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration.
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JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Migratory Imagination
1. Migration, Sexual Exploitation, and the Form of the Afterlife of Slavery: Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street and Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail
2. Refugee Livelihood, Racial Disorientation, and Mourning and Melancholy: Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air
3. Hospitality, Forgiveness, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in the Paris Suburbs: Wilfried N'Sondè's The Heart of the Leopard Children and The Silence of Spirits
4. Migration and the Rwandan Genocide: Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi: The Book of Bones and Gilbert Gatore's The Past Ahead
5. Environmental Devastation and Accumulation by Dispossession: Ishmael Beah's Radiance of Tomorrow and In Koli Jean Bofane's Congo INC.
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Introduction: The Migratory Imagination
1. Migration, Sexual Exploitation, and the Form of the Afterlife of Slavery: Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street and Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail
2. Refugee Livelihood, Racial Disorientation, and Mourning and Melancholy: Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air
3. Hospitality, Forgiveness, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in the Paris Suburbs: Wilfried N'Sondè's The Heart of the Leopard Children and The Silence of Spirits
4. Migration and the Rwandan Genocide: Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi: The Book of Bones and Gilbert Gatore's The Past Ahead
5. Environmental Devastation and Accumulation by Dispossession: Ishmael Beah's Radiance of Tomorrow and In Koli Jean Bofane's Congo INC.
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Index
