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Summary:

Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The migration turn in African cultural productions / Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor
• African migration on the screen : films of migration
• Harragas, global subjects, and failed deterritorializations : the tragedies of illegal Mediterranean crossings in Maghrebi cinema / Vaĺerie K. Orlando
• Nollywood comedies and visa lotteries : welfare states, borders, and migration as random invitation / Matthew H. Brown
• Accented cinema : the context of Nollywood / Babatunde Onikoyi
• Migrations and representations : the cinema of Griot Dani Kouyat? / Daniela Ricci
• Forgotten diasporas : Lusophone and Indian diasporas
• Mami Wata, migrations, and miscegenation : transculturalism in Jośe Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida / Niyi Afolabi
• Poor migrant : poverty and striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's people and The pickup / S. Shankar
• Reimaging Blackness in a hybridized and racialized space : the visual landscapes of the Peruvian district of El Carmen, Chincha / Gilbert Shang Ndi
• Migration against the grain : narratives of return
• Reading space, subjectivity, and form in the twenty-first-century narrative of return / Madhu Krishnan
• Looking for Transwonderland : Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the heart / Toni Pressley-Sanon
• The literary circulation of Teju Cole's Every day is for the thief / Connor Ryan
• Speculative migration and the project of futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa paradis / MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins
• Migration and difference : indigeneity, race, religion, and poetry at the margins
• Monkeys from hell, Toubabs in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow
• Mapping "sacred" space in Leila Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Andrew H. Armstrong
• Waris Dirie, FGM, and the authentic voice / John C. Hawley
• Esiaba Irobi : poetry at the margins / Isidore Diala.

Contributors:

Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze , editor

Taylor, Jack, 1982- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: African migration narratives (Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018 — ISBN 9781580469340; LCCN 2018047468; OCLC Number 1056202582)

Related Series:

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora

Subjects:

African diaspora — History — 21st century

African diaspora in literature

Africans in motion pictures

Africans — Migrations — History — 21st century

Return migration — Africa

Return migration in literature

Return migration in motion pictures

2000-2099

Africans — Migrations

Africans

Return migration

African diaspora

Africa

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 310 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DT16.5 .A344 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781787444102 (electronic bk.)
1787444104 (electronic bk.)
9781787444119 (ePub ebook)
1787444112
9781580469340 [Invalid]
1580469345 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1083266812