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Coloniality and migrancy in African diasporic literatures / Peter Moopi and Rodwell Makombe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moopi, Peter, author.
- Makombe, Rodwell, author.
- Series:
- African diaspora literary and cultural studies
- Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mbue, Imbolo--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mbue, Imbolo.
- Eggers, Dave--Criticism and interpretation.
- Eggers, Dave.
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977---Criticism and interpretation.
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi.
- Bulawayo, NoViolet--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bulawayo, NoViolet.
- Habila, Helon, 1967---Criticism and interpretation.
- Habila, Helon.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African literature (English)--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- African diaspora in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Peter Moopi is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (2018-2019), the University of Michigan's Presidential Scholarship Programme (UMAPS) (2022) and a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Decolonial migrations in African diasporic literatures
- Coloniality, migrancy and the African migrant experience in literatures of migration
- Coloniality of being and the immigrant experience in No-Violet Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013)
- Race and Coloniality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013)
- The violence of modernity: Race, Class, and the everyday immigrant experience in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers (2016)
- Black-on-black Violence, Estrangement, Home, Belonging, and the Coloniality of Being in Dave Eggers' What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
- Coloniality of migration and the racialised immigrant in Helon Habila's Travellers (2019)
- Coloniality, (i)mmobility and African migrancy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Moopi, Peter. Coloniality and migrancy in African diasporic literatures
- ISBN:
- 9781003441427
- 1003441424
- 9781000968590
- 1000968596
- 9781000968545
- 1000968545
- Publisher Number:
- 40032120305
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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