Mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic literatures
By: by Anna-Leena Toivanen
Series: Textxet -- volume 95; Text (Rodopi (Firm)) -- 95.
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789004442726; 9789004444751
Subjects: 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 transnationalism
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trouble in the business class. Anxious mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre : Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story; title: The hotel as space of transit in Sefi Atta's and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short stories; title: Uneasy 'homecoming' in Alain Mabanckou's Lumières de Pointe-Noire; title: Budget travels, practical cosmopolitanisms. New technologies and communication gaps in novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; title: Everyday urban mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs; title: European peripheries and practical cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure; title: Abject travels of citizens of nowhere. Failing border crossings and cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava's Harare North; title: Arrested clandestine odysseys in Sefi Atta's "Twilight trek" and Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes; title: Zombie travels : J. R. Essomba's Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore.