Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures.
In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures , Anna-Leena Toivanen 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 mobili...
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2021.
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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.