Transit lit : fictions of migration in twenty-first-century African immigrant literature / Cameron Leader-Picone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leader-Picone, Cameron, Author.

Series:

Critical insurgencies http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/1d67e789-aa48-a9ca-5848-4cc5c49e5aa0

Critical insurgencies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

African diaspora in literature--21st century.

African diaspora in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Fictions of migration in twenty-first-century African immigrant literature

Fictions of migration in 21st-century African immigrant literature

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "It Is High Time the African Stood Up"

The Campus and Cosmopolitanism

Afropolitanism and the African "Good Immigrant" Narrative

Immigrant Metafictions and the Narrativizing of Bureaucracy

Afro-Pessimist Narratives, Critical Cosmopolitanism, and Democracy

Slavery, Colonialism, and Conceptualizing Diaspora

Coda: Xenophobia and Cosmopolitan Optimism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810149335

0810149338

9780810149342

0810149346

OCLC:

1525543005