Research Catalog

Title

African migration narratives : politics, race, and space / edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor.

Publication

• Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze
• Taylor, Jack, 1982-

Description

vi, 310 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora

Uniform Title

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.

Subjects

• African diaspora
• Africans > Migrations
• Return migration
• African diaspora in literature
• 2000-2099
• History
• Return migration in literature
• Africans in motion pictures
• Africa
• Return migration > Africa
• Return migration in motion pictures
• African diaspora > History > 21st century
• Africans > Migrations > History > 21st century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 19-295

ISBN

• 9781580469340
• 1580469345

LCCN

• 2018047468
• 40028738022

OCLC

1056202582

Title

African migration narratives : politics, race, and space / edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor.

Publisher

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze, editor.

Taylor, Jack, 1982- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40028738022

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-295