The Routledge handbook of the new African diasporic literature / edited by Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Losambe, Lokangaka, editor.

Ojaide, Tanure, 1948- editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--Black authors--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Authors, Black.

African diaspora.

Immigrants' writings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa).Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies."-- Provided by publisher.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

040013988

9781040013977

104001397X

9781003396697 (electronic book)

1003396690

9781003396697

OCLC:

1433203158