{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-subject-in-transit-9781498563857","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\u003cbr\u003eToyin Falola \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature \u003cbr\u003eDelphine Fongang \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie’s Americanah \u003cbr\u003eHenry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North \u003cbr\u003eDelphine Fongang \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Politics of Migration: Dreams, Illusions and Reality in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc. and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. \u003cbr\u003eBosede Funke Afolayan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah \u003cbr\u003eNa’Imah H. Ford \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open City \u003cbr\u003eIgor Maver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of “Queer” Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives \u003cbr\u003eGibson Ncube \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury’s So Pretty an African \u003cbr\u003eSamuel Kamara \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Reconnecting with the Homeland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. “The Return of the Native”: Discourse of the Homecoming ‘Returnee’ Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. Vassanji \u003cbr\u003eShilpa Daithota Bhat \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Arrivals, Geographies, and “The Usual Reply” in Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion \u003cbr\u003eNicole Stamant \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Dislocation, Mimicry and the Geography of Home in Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference \u003cbr\u003eGrace Adeniyi Ogunyankin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Emerging Perspectives in African Diasporic Literature \u003cbr\u003eDelphine Fongang","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040788906327,"sku":"9781498563857","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498563857.jpg?v=1750947844","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-postcolonial-subject-in-transit-9781498563857","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}