ISBN:
978-1-58046-934-0
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 310 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Keywords:
Afrika Migration
;
Diaspora
;
Literatur
;
Afrika-Bild
;
Film
;
Massenmedien
;
Remigration
;
Politik
Abstract:
This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways in which African cultural productions shape and are shaped by the migration debates, the contributions these productions make to an understanding of globalization, and the stylistic features of the works. The texts analyzed here include important recent writings and films that have yet to receive considerable scholarly attention, by artists such as Chimamanda Adichie, Teju Cole, Leila Aboulela, Noo Saro-Wiwa, and Marzek Allouache. Current scholarship on migration largely focuses on the journey from Third World spaces to the First World, thereby radically limiting our understanding of migratory flows. This project works against this lopsided analysis of migration and considers narratives of return as central to migratory flows. The book also invests in underanalyzed and underrepresented diasporas on the continent including the Lusophone and Indian diasporas. Unlike much scholarship on migration in African cultural studies, which tends to focus primarily on a genre (literature), a region, or a specific language, the current book emphasizes Africa's geographical and linguistic diversity by being attentive to Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone areas, as well as an array of texts encompassing various genres. CAJETAN IHEKA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The migration turn in African cultural productions / Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor -- African migration on the screen : films of migration -- Harragas, global subjects, and failed deterritorializations : the tragedies of illegal Mediterranean crossings in Maghrebi cinema / Vale´rie K. Orlando -- Nollywood comedies and visa lotteries : welfare states, borders, and migration as random invitation / Matthew H. Brown -- Accented cinema : the context of Nollywood / Tunde Onikoyi -- Migrations and representations : the cinema of Griot Dani Kouyat? / Daniela Ricci -- Forgotten diasporas : Lusophone and Indian diasporas -- Mami Wata, migrations, and miscegenation : transculturalism in Jose´ Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida / Niyi Afolabi -- Poor migrant : poverty and striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's people and The pickup / S. Shankar -- Reimaging Blackness in a hybridized and racialized space : the visual landscapes of the Peruvian district of El Carmen, Chincha / Gilbert Ndi Shang -- Migration against the grain : narratives of return -- Reading space, subjectivity, and form in the twenty-first-century narrative of return / Madhu Krishnan -- Looking for Transwonderland : Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the heart / Toni Pressley-Sanon -- The literary circulation of Teju Cole's Every day is for the thief / Connor Ryan -- Speculative migration and the project of futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa paradis / MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins -- Migration and difference : indigeneity, race, religion, and poetry at the margins -- Monkeys from hell, Toubabs in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Mapping "sacred" space in Leila Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Andrew H. Armstrong -- Waris Dirie, FGM, and the authentic voice / John C. Hawley -- Esiaba Irobi : poetry at the margins / Isidore Diala.
