African Migration and the Novel by Jack Taylor
Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration. African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking, and political violence through the lens of novels of African migration. The book details how authors such as Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, In Koli Jean Bofane, Boubacar Boris Diop, and others develop "the migratory imagination": the creative means mobilized within their novels to expose the reader to contemporary social issues. Drawing on and synthesizing a multitude of theoretical frameworks including ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, genre studies, Black studies, paratextual reading, and political economy, the book argues for the flexibility of the migration novel as a genre. African Migration and the Novel traces migratory routes such as Nigeria to London and Belgium, Congo to Paris, Ethiopia to Washington, DC, and internal migration resulting from environmental destruction in Sierra Leone, while paying deep attention to the historical and political conditions described in the novels. The subjectivities and livelihoods of immigrants, refugees, those living in exile, and asylum seekers are all represented in the migration novels under discussion. Ultimately, this work demonstrates the promise of the African migration novel to awaken a sense of justice in the reader.-
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Ira Aldridge
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Decolonization of African Studies and the Future of African Studies [2 volume set]
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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
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Ethnicity in Zimbabwe
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Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture
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Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa
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Opposing Apartheid on Stage
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Cultivating Their Own
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Voices of the Poor in Africa
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Sufi City
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Blood on the Tides
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Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal
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Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria
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Ethics and Society in Nigeria
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Disability in Africa
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The Power of the Oath
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Constructions of Belonging
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African Migration Narratives
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Yoruba Pentecostalism and Child Witchcraft Accusations
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Indirect Rule in South Africa
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The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe
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Not So Plain as Black and White
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Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
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African Islands
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Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya
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Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1986
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The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960
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Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
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Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
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On Durban's Docks
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Enchanted Calvinism
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Sources and Methods in African History
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Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius
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Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
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Building a Peaceful Nation
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Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin
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Narrating War and Peace in Africa
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South Africa and the World Economy
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Cotton and Race across the Atlantic
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The Politics of Chieftaincy
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Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present
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JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781648250910 |
| ISBN 10 | 1648250912 |
| Title | African Migration and the Novel |
| Author | Jack Taylor |
| Series | Rochester Studies In African History And The Diaspora |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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