Mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic literatures / Anna-Leena Toivanen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toivanen, Anna-Leena, 1979- author.

Series:

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 95.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African fiction (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.

African fiction (English).

African fiction (French)--Black authors--History and criticism.

African fiction (French).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures , Anna-Leena Toivanen explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories of cosmopolitanism reflecting the privileged, pragmatic, and critical aspects of the concept. The main scientific contribution of Toivanen's book is its attempt to enhance dialogue between postcolonial literary studies and mobilities research. The book criticises reductive understandings of 'mobility' as a synonym for migration, and problematises frequently made links between mobility and cosmopolitanism. Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms adopts a comparative approach to Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures, often discussed separately despite their common themes and parallel paths.

Contents:

Trouble in the business class. Anxious mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre : Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story

The hotel as space of transit in Sefi Atta's and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short stories

Uneasy 'homecoming' in Alain Mabanckou's Lumières de Pointe-Noire

Budget travels, practical cosmopolitanisms. New technologies and communication gaps in novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everyday urban mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs

European peripheries and practical cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure

Abject travels of citizens of nowhere. Failing border crossings and cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava's Harare North

Arrested clandestine odysseys in Sefi Atta's "Twilight trek" and Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes

Zombie travels : J. R. Essomba's Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44475-0

OCLC:

1241445410

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004444751 DOI