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Emailing/Skyping Africa: New Technologies and Communication Gaps in Contemporary African Women's Fiction
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
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Mobility marks the fields of contemporary African and African diasporic literatures in a profound way. In the study of postcolonial literatures, mobility is most often understood in terms of the physical human travel that ...
Cosmopolitanism's new clothes? The limits of the concept of Afropolitanism
(2017)
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Despite all the attention it has received, Afropolitanism remains undertheorised. Afropolitanism, inspired by the concept of cosmopolitanism, includes an explicit link to the African continent, which may result in promoting ...
Clandestine migrant mobility, European peripheries, and practical cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)
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The present article focuses on the representation of clandestine migrant mobilities in the novel Faire l’aventure by the Franco-Caribbean author Fabienne Kanor. The analysis has two lines of inquiry. Firstly, it focuses ...
Failing Cosmopolitanism: Aborted Transnational Journeys in Novels by Monique Ilboudo, Sefi Atta and Aminata Sow Fall
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)
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This article adopts a critically attuned understanding of cosmopolitanism in its reading of Monique Ilboudo’s Le mal de peau, Sefi Atta’s Swallow and Aminata Sow Fall’s Douceurs du bercail. It focuses on the ways in which ...
Spaces of in-between-ness and unbelonging : the hotel in short stories by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)
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The figure of the migrant has become a paradigmatic representative of globalised postcoloniality. Yet, not all ‘postcolonial’ mobilities can be equated with migration. Cases in point are the travelling African protagonists ...
Aeromobilities of diasporic returnees in Francophone African literatures
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)
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Postcolonial literary studies have not paid much attention to literary portrayals of mobility practices partly because the field promotes a reductive understanding of ‘mobility’ as a mere synonym for migration. In order ...
Modes of transport and rhythms of mobility in Bernard B. Dadié’s Un Nègre à Paris (1959) and Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s L’Africain du Groenland (1981)
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)
This article discusses Bernard B. Dadié’s Un Nègre à Paris (1959; 1994) and Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s L’Africain du Groenland ([1981] (2015); 2001) by focusing on their portrayals of transport and rhythms of mobility, and ...
Peripheralising the Metropolis: Aeromobile Portrayals of Paris in Francophone African Literatures
(Konkuk University Academy of Mobility Humanities, 2023)
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As the (former) colonial centre and the mythical City of Light, Paris occupies a prominent position in the Francophone African literary imagination. While the alleged centrality of Paris has been challenged by critical ...