The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature [Paperback]

The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to self-realization and empowerment.Delphine Fongang is lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Foreword
Toyin Falola

Introduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African Literature
Delphine Fongang

Part I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing

1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichies Americanah
Henry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh

2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwavas Harare North
Delphine Fongang

3. Politics of Migration: Dreams, Illusions and Reality in Okey Ndibes Foreign Gods Inc. and NoViolet Bulawayos We Need New Names.
Bosede Funke Afolayan

Part II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities

4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Americanah
NaImah H. Ford

5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open City
Igor Maver

6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of Queer Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary Narratives
Gibson Ncube

7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression ofl3‘