{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-subject-in-transit-9781498563833","title":"The Postcolonial Subject in Transit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \tToyin Falola   Introduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature  Delphine Fongang   Part I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing   1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie’s Americanah  Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh   2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North  Delphine Fongang   3. Politics of Migration: Dreams, Illusions and Reality in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc. and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names.  Bosede Funke Afolayan   Part II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities   4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah  Na’Imah H. Ford   5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open City  Igor Maver  6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of “Queer” Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives  Gibson Ncube   7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury’s So Pretty an African  Samuel Kamara   Part III: Reconnecting with the Homeland  8. “The Return of the Native”: Discourse of the Homecoming ‘Returnee’ Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. Vassanji  Shilpa Daithota Bhat   9. Arrivals, Geographies, and “The Usual Reply” in Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion  Nicole Stamant   10. Dislocation, Mimicry and the Geography of Home in Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference  Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin   Conclusion: Emerging Perspectives in African Diasporic Literature  Delphine Fongang","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040788939095,"sku":"9781498563833","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498563833.jpg?v=1750947844","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-postcolonial-subject-in-transit-9781498563833","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}