African Migration and the Novel - Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction

Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration.

List of contents

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.
Coda

Index

About the author

Jack Taylor

Summary

Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Taylor, Professor Jack (Author) Taylor
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9781648250910
• ISBN: 978-1-64825-091-0
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous