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Postcolonial disillusionment and migration in African literature / edited by Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade and Sone Mirabeau Enongene.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- African literature.
- African literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Disillusion (Philosophy) in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2026.
- Contents:
- Part I : Trends in portrayal of postcolonial disillusionment
- Trends in Postcolonial Disillusionment in Africa / Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade and Sone Mirabeau Enongene
- Postcolonial disillusionment and failed resistance in Nigerian fiction : antinomies and the possibilities of a transformative future / Israel Oluwaseun Adeleke
- Exploring military tyranny and disillusionment in the postcolony in Joy Chinwokwu's Clouds at sunrise / Kehinde Omojola
- Post-colonial disillusionment in Oginga Odinga's Not yet Uhuru / James Chawinga
- Multifaceted disillusionment in post-apartheid South Africa : a study of Zakes Mda's Mother of all eating / Funmilola Kemi Megbowon
- Mutual distrust, ethnic tensions and neo-colonial unease as disillusionment in Rwanda : the case of Fergal Keane's Season of blood and Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches / Eleanor Anneh Dasi
- Beyond leadership : inverted disillusionment in postcolonial African literature / Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade
- Disillusionment, women, and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born / Njeng Eric
- Part II : African culture as agent for postcolonial reorder
- Myth and social re-ordering in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising / Divine Che Neba
- Ritual (m)othering, the mythological contestations of postcolonial nationhood and forms of disillusionment in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful we were / Kundai Watson Fingson & Kudzayi Ngara
- Part III : Migration as consequence of disillusionment
- Place, disillusionment and displacement: the Afropolitan-self as an alternative order in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Memory of departure / Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo
- Diasporic journeys in Francophone African literature : understanding migration, subalternity, and disenchantment / Lillian Dugguh and Chris Michael Kuju
- From hope to disillusionment : the fallacy of North African Arab/Muslim immigrants' integration in Fawzia Zouari's I die by this country / Robert Moyo
- Displaced dreams : African fictions of migrancy at the crossroads of hope and despair / Laura Zander
- The lion's point of view : examining clandestine migration in postcolonial African fiction and film / Rita Keresztesi
- Tanzanian diasporic disillusionment and the cruel promise of happiness in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Gravel heart and M.G. Vassanji's No new land / Delores B. Phillips.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781003765196 (electronic bk.)
- 100376519X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40033226688
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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