The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature [Paperback]

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Trends in the New African Diasporic Literature

Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide

Part I: The Sankofan Wave (late 1960s  early 1990s)

A. Anglophone Perspectives

1. The Shapeshifter in Ngig) wa Thiongos Migrant Writing

G)chingiri Nd)g)r)g)

2. Abdulrazak Gurnah and V.S. Naipaul: Memory of Departure vs. Enigma of Arrival

Simon Keith Lewis

3. Paradise Destroyed: Exile and Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnahs Paradise and NoViolet Bulawayos We Need New Names

Joya Uraizee

4. Diaspora as Motif in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula and Lupenga Mphande

Dike Okoro

5. Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World Archives

Uhuru Portia Phalafala

6. Contextualizing Racism and Humanity in Dennis Brutuss Poetry

Kehinde Akano

7. Zo? Wicomb and the Poetics of Social Irony

Stefan Helgesson

8. Dizzy with the To-ing and Fro-ing: Diasporic Prose of the New South Africa

Peter Blair

9. Cultural Displacement, Identity and Home in Buchi Emechetas Diasporic Fiction

H. Oby Okolocha

10. Writing Against the Rift: Ben Okris Diasporic Consciousness Defies Closure