The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. It investigates three major aesthetic paradigms: Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants.

Auteur

Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. Dr. Losambe also served as the president of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 20122013.

Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the UNC, Charlotte. He has published collections of poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and self-authored and co-authored scholarly books. Dr. Ojaide teaches and publishes on African Literature and Culture, the Folklore of Africa and the African Diaspora, and Globalization in African Poetry.

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. It investigates three major aesthetic paradigms: Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants.

Résumé

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960searly 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa).

Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the diasporic consciousness of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings.

This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Contenu

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 Ngg wa Thiong'o's Migrant Writing

Gchingiri Ndgrg

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 Gurnah's Paradise and NoViolet Bulawayo's 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 Brutus's Poetry

Kehinde Akano

7. Zoë 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 Emecheta's Diasporic Fiction

H. Oby Okolocha

10. Writing Against the Rift: Ben Okri's Diasporic Consciousness Defies Closure

Rosemary Gray

11. Troubadours, They Traverse: Global Vision and Diasporic Imagination in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare and Tijan Sallah

Wumi Raji

12. The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place in Tanure Ojaide's Diasporic Poems

Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu

13. Living in the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Alfred Kisubi

Edoama Odueme

14. Tracing the 'Missing Link': Postcolonial Reconfigurations and Diasporic Imaginaries in Funso Aiyejina's Writing

Olajumoke Verissimo

15. New African Diasporic Drama: Nigerian Meaning-Making Identities and Ethos

Mabel Evwierhoma

16. (W)righting the African Diaspora: Tess Onwueme's Interrogation of African Diasporic Trauma, History, and Belonging

Maureen N. Eke

B. Francophone Perspectives

17. Historical Afroeuropean and Transatlantic Mobilities in Contemporary Francophone Afrodiasporic Fiction

Anna-Leena Toivanen

18. Ivoiritié in Tanella Boni's Exile Discourse

Honoré Missihoun

19. Tale(ing) Africa in a Global Context: War, Nature, and Pandemic in Veronique Tadjo's The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda and In the Company of Men

Zaynab Ango

20. Congolese Trasnational/Diasporic Writers and their Multi-Pronged Fights

Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga

Part II: The Janusian Wave (1990s and 2020s)

A. Anglophone Perspectives

21. Benjamin Kwakye and Okey Ndibe: Migration and Diasporic Encounters

Joseph McLaren

22. Negotiating Home in the New World African Diasporic Wrtings: The Niger Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero Ede

Mathias Iroro Orhero

23. Helon Habila's Narratives: Thematic Visions and Narratology in The Chibok Girls and Travelers.

Effiok Bassey Uwatt

24. Diasporic Consciousness and Narrative Ambiguity in Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chika Unigwe

Daria Tunca

25. Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant Experience in Belgium, Europe.

Enajite Ojaruega

26. Chris Abani, The Anthropocene, and Transnational Ecoglobal Criticism

Sarah E. Turner

27. Dinaw Mengestu's Diasporic Practice

Taylor Eggan

28. Cruel Optimism: The Longings of Outsiders Within Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

29. The Poetics of Mobility, Proximity, and Emb'race in Joyce Ash's A Basket of Flaming Ashes (2010) and Beautiful Fire (2018)

Gilbert Shang Ndi

30. Holding the Global Gaze: The Image of Africa and the Unapologetic Aesthetics of (Un)Belonging in the Second Wave New African Diasporic Literatures: NoViolet Bulawayo, Sefi Atta, Zukiswa Wanner, and Nana Nkweti

Martha Ndakalako

31. The Poetics of Unhomeliness and Homemaking in Gabeba Baderoon's Poetry

Nasseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally

32. The Transatlantic Turn in Laila Lalami's Migrant Writing

Ahmed Idrissi Alami

33. Postcolonial Diasporic Conjunctive Consciousness in Leila Aboulela's The Translator

Lokangaka Losambe

B. Francophone Perspectives

34. Fatou Diome, Abdourahman Waberi, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Authors of French Expression Writing in and for La Littérature-Monde

Valérie K. Orlando

35. Extending the Boundaries of Fiction and Identity in Alain Mabanckou's Black Bazar

Augustine H. Asaah

36. Calixthe Beyala's Literary Work Travels North

Ylva Lindberg

37. Calixthe Beyala's Your Name Shall Be Tanga: An African-Diasporic Anomaly

Christine Grogan

38. Politicizing the Universal of the African Diasporic Stage Space in France

Brian Valente-Quinn

Part III: Offshoots of the New Arrivants (Born and Growing in Diasporic Spaces)

A. Anglophone Perspectives

39. Who is Teju Cole? Or Is Teju Cole the Same as Julius?

Kenneth Harrow

40. Peace, Love, World: Helen Oy…