Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239) and index.
Contents:
Trouble in the business class. Anxious mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre : Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story -- The hotel as space of transit in Sefi Atta's and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short stories -- Uneasy 'homecoming' in Alain Mabanckou's Lumières de Pointe-Noire -- Budget travels, practical cosmopolitanisms. New technologies and communication gaps in novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Everyday urban mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs -- European peripheries and practical cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure -- Abject travels of citizens of nowhere. Failing border crossings and cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava's Harare North -- Arrested clandestine odysseys in Sefi Atta's "Twilight trek" and Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes -- Zombie travels : J. R. Essomba's Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore.
Summary:
"In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, the author explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories of cosmopolitanism reflecting the privileged, pragmatic, and critical aspects of the concept"-- Provided by publisher.
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