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Subject(s)

• Literature, Modern—Black authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Authors, Black [Browse]
• African diaspora [Browse]
• Immigrants' writings [Browse]

Editor

• Losambe, Lokangaka [Browse]
• Ojaide, Tanure, 1948- [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. It investigates three major aesthetic paradigms: Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants.

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Contents

• Introduction: Trends in the New African Diasporic Literature
• I
• The Sankofan Wave
• The Janusian Wave
• The Offshoots of the New Arrivants Wave
• II
• Works Cited
• Part I: The Sankofan Wave (Late 1960s-Early 1990s)
• A: Anglophone Perspectives
• 1. The Shapeshifter in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Migrant Writing
• 2. Abdulrazak Gurnah and V.S. Naipaul: Memory of Departure vs. Enigma of Arrival
• Notes
• 3. Paradise Destroyed: Exile and Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
• 4. Diaspora as Motif in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula, and Lupenga Mphande
• Introduction
• Background
• Jack Mapanje
• Lupenga Mphande
• Frank Chipasula
• Conclusion
• 5. Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World Archives
• Kgositsile: South Africa in the Black World
• Poetics of Divination
• BAM and the Search for Erotics of Revolution
• 6. Contextualizing Racism and Humanity in Dennis Brutus's Poetry
• Poetry, Humanity and Racism
• 7. Zoë Wicomb and the Poetics of Social Irony
• Works cited
• 8. 'Dizzy with the To-ing and Fro-ing': Diasporic Prose of the 'New South Africa'
• Liberation Movements: Returnees and Relocators
• Africa South: Continental and Oceanic
• No Longer, Not Yet: J.M. Coetzee and Starting Zero
• Topsy-Turviness: Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal
• Acknowledgments
• 9. Cultural Displacement, Identity and Home in Buchi Emecheta's Diasporic Fiction
• Contrapuntal Awareness and Cultural Displacement
• Identity and Home
• Works Cited.
• 10. Writing against the Rift: Ben Okri's Diasporic Consciousness Defies Closure
• 11. Troubadours, They Traverse: Global Vision and Diasporic Imagination in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare and Tijan Sallah
• III
• 12. The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place in Tanure Ojaide's Diasporic Poems
• Tanure Ojaide: The Poet and His Poetry
• Diasporic Re-rooting in Ojaide's Poetry
• Aridon and His Minstrel in the Diaspora
• 13. Living in the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Alfred Kisubi
• Afropolitanism: Diaspora Consciousness and Identity Construction
• Afropolitanism: Negotiating Interstitial Identity
• Afropolitanism and African Nationalistic Values
• 14. Tracing the 'Missing Link': Postcolonial Reconfigurations and Diasporic Imaginations in Funso Aiyejina's Writings
• 15. New African Diasporic Drama: Nigerian Meaning-Making Identities and Ethos
• Perspectives and Themes in the Drama of Nigerian Diasporan Dramatists
• Funso Aiyejina
• Yemi Ajibade
• Seffi Atta
• Ngozi Anyanwu
• Values for the Homeland: A Broad Assessment
• 16. (W)righting the African Diaspora: Tess Onwueme's Interrogation of African Diasporic Trauma, History, and Belonging
• Space Clearing: Of Displacement, Dispersals, and Diasporas
• A Complex Story: Recuperating Ancestry - Back to Africa
• New African Diaspora - Momah's Dream
• A Mythical Journey for Wholeness
• Pan Africanism Revisited: Riot in Heaven
• Culture and Reverse Returns
• Closing
• B: Francophone Perspectives
• 17. Historical Afroeuropean and Transatlantic Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone Afrodiasporic Fiction.
• Un Océan, deux mers, trois continents: A Journey to Rome in the Cabin of a Slave Ship
• La Sonate à Bridgetower: On the Move in the Music Capitals of Europe
• Acknowledgement
• 18. Ivoirité in Tanella Boni's Exile Discourse
• Tanella Boni: Works, Concept of «Owl of Minerva» and Matins de Couvre-feu
• Matins de couvre-feu: Reality, History, and Myth of Ivoirité
• Loi-cadre (The French Colonial Framework Law) and Ivoirité: Colonialism and the Colonizer
• Ivorian-ness in the Writers' Consciousness
• Ivoirité and Tanella Boni's Feminine Discourse
• Les Baigneurs du lac rose: The Swimmers of the Pink Lake (my translation)
• Matins de couvre-feu (Matins): Mornings under Curfew (Mornings)
• 19. Tale(ing) Africa in a Global Context: War, Nature and Pandemic in Veronique Tadjo's The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda and In the Company of Men
• Origin, Migration, and Writing
• Afropolitanism and African Literature
• Genocide and a Global Conspiracy
• In the Company of Men: The Environment, Epidemic and Globalization
• Nature's Exploitation and the Aftermath
• 20. Congolese Transnational/Diasporic Writers and Their Multi-Pronged Fights
• The First Generation of Congolese Diasporic Writers
• The Second Generation of Congolese Diasporic Writers
• Conclusion: Is Afropeanism the Solution?
• Part II: The Janusian Wave (1990s and 2020s)
• 21. Benjamin Kwakye and Okey Ndibe: Migration and Diasporic Encounters
• Theoretical Considerations
• Kwakye's Trilogy and the Mythology of the American Dream
• Diaspora and Homeland: Nigerian American Realities in Ndibe's Fiction and Memoir
• 22. Negotiating Home in New African Diasporic Writings: The Niger Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero Ede
• DisPlace: A Trans-Spatiotemporal Negotiation of Home
• Finding Home in the Long Poem: Amatoritsero Ede's Trans-Spatiotemporality
• Note
• 23. Helon Habila's Narratives: Thematic Visions and Narratology in Oil on Water, The Chibok Girls and Travellers
• Quest-Motif Structure
• Postmodernist Search for Truth
• Exploitation and Forced Land Acquisitions
• Eco-Activism against Environmental Injustice
• Militarization of the Niger Delta Region
• Quest for Origins of Violence in The Chibok Girls
• Search for Truth about the Drive for Transnational Emigration in Travellers
• Availability of Educational Opportunities and Arts Fellowship
• Inquisition
• Asylum Immigrants
• Companionship and Love
• Narratology in Habila's Narratives
• Multiple Points of View in The Chibok Girls
• Multiple Points of View in Oil on Water
• Multiple Points of View in Travellers
• 24. Diasporic Consciousness and Narrative Ambiguity in Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chika Unigwe
• 25. Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant Experience in Belgium, Europe
• Unigwe's Writings: Synergizing Homeland and Diaspora
• The Diasporic Consciousness in Unigwe's Better Never than Late
• 26. Chris Abani, the Anthropocene, and Transnational Ecoglobal Criticism
• 27. Dinaw Mengestu's Diasporic Practice
• Chronotyping
• Fictioneering
• Identity and/as Diasporic Practice
• 28. Cruel Optimism: The Longings of Outsiders within Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.
• Cruel Optimism: On Being the Hope-filled Outsider
• Learning from the Outsider Within
• From Toundi Ondoua to Jende Jonga: 60 Years of Dreams Deferred?
• 29. The Poetics of Mobility, Proximity and Emb'race in Joyce Ash's A Basket of Flaming Ashes and Beautiful Fire
• The Ontological Quest: Poetics of Air, Water, and Fire
• On Cosmopolitan poethics
• Erotic Emb'race and Corporeal Diction
• The Diasporic Subject and the Quest for Connection
• Connecting Multiple African Diasporic Experiences
• Acknowledgements
• 30. Holding the Global Gaze: The Image of Africa and the Unapologetic Aesthetics of (Un)Belonging in the Second Wave New African Diasporic Literature: NoViolet Bulawayo, Sefi Atta, Zukiswa Wanner and Nana Nkweti
• Western Imaging of Africa and New Diasporic Identity Negotiations in We Need New Names and A Bit of Difference
• A Bit of Difference
• Visions of Syncretic Diasporic Identity and Global Black Belonging: London Cape Town Joburg and Walking on Cowrie Shells
• London Cape Town Joburg
• Walking on Cowrie Shells
• 31. The Poetics of Unhomeliness and Home Making in Gabeba Baderoon's Poetry
• Re-imagining Muslims through ekphrasis: From Africa to the world
• The Poetics of Relationality
• Maternal Connections
• 'Home as Making'
• 32. The Transatlantic Turn in Laila Lalami's Migrant Writing
• The Past and Its Legacies
• Dystopian Visions of Diaspora and the Unsettling of the American Dream
• Immigrant Children, Racialization, and the Making of Diasporic Homes
• Cross-Cultural Solidarity and the Politics of Connectivity
• 33. Postcolonial Diasporic Conjunctive Consciousness in Leila Aboulela's The Translator
• B: Francophone Perspectives.

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ISBN

• 040013988
• 104001397X
• 1003396690

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