The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature (Transforming Literary Studies) - Softcover

 
9781498563857: The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature (Transforming Literary Studies)

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The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to self-realization and empowerment.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Delphine Fongang is lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 28 honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria and Africa, including Daily Life in Colonial Africa (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Daily Life in Postcolonial Africa (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Shilpa Daithota Bhatis assistant professor at the National Forensic Sciences University (An Institution of National Importance; Ministry of Home Affairs) in India.

Gibson Ncube is Senior Lecturer of French Language and Francophone Literature and Cultures at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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9781498563833: The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature (Transforming Literary Studies)

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ISBN 10:  149856383X ISBN 13:  9781498563833
Verlag: Lexington Books, 2018
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