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Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration--Provided by publisher
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monografia Rebiun25980900 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun25980900 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 190124s2018 nyua ob 001 0 eng d 1101972228 1102415522 9781787444102 electronic bk.) 1787444104 electronic bk.) 9781787444119 ePub ebook) 1787444112 9781580469340 1580469345 40028738022 CBUC 991010753320806709 AAAD1087 Ingram Content Group N$T eng rda pn N$T YDX UKMGB EBLCP DKU NYP OCLCO OCL CAMBR OCLCQ UKAHL OCLCQ f------ ART 060000 bisacsh ART 025000 bisacsh African migration narratives politics, race, and space edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press 2018 Rochester, NY Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press ©2018 1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) 1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: The migration turn in African cultural productions / Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor -- African migration on the screen : films of migration -- Harragas, global subjects, and failed deterritorializations : the tragedies of illegal Mediterranean crossings in Maghrebi cinema / Valerie K. Orlando -- Nollywood comedies and visa lotteries : welfare states, borders, and migration as random invitation / Matthew H. Brown -- Accented cinema : the context of Nollywood / Babatunde Onikoyi -- Migrations and representations : the cinema of Griot Dani Kouyat? / Daniela Ricci -- Forgotten diasporas : Lusophone and Indian diasporas -- Mami Wata, migrations, and miscegenation : transculturalism in Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida / Niyi Afolabi -- Poor migrant : poverty and striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's people and The pickup / S. Shankar -- Reimaging Blackness in a hybridized and racialized space : the visual landscapes of the Peruvian district of El Carmen, Chincha / Gilbert Shang Ndi -- Migration against the grain : narratives of return -- Reading space, subjectivity, and form in the twenty-first-century narrative of return / Madhu Krishnan -- Looking for Transwonderland : Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the heart / Toni Pressley-Sanon -- The literary circulation of Teju Cole's Every day is for the thief / Connor Ryan -- Speculative migration and the project of futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa paradis / MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins -- Migration and difference : indigeneity, race, religion, and poetry at the margins -- Monkeys from hell, Toubabs in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Mapping "sacred" space in Leila Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Andrew H. Armstrong -- Waris Dirie, FGM, and the authentic voice / John C. Hawley -- Esiaba Irobi : poetry at the margins / Isidore Diala Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration--Provided by publisher African diaspora- History- 21st century African diaspora in literature Africans in motion pictures Africans- Migrations- History- 21st century Return migration- África Return migration in literature Return migration in motion pictures ART- Performance ART- Reference African diaspora African diaspora in literature Africans in motion pictures Africans- Migrations Return migration Return migration in literature Return migration in motion pictures África Electronic books History Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze editor Taylor, Jack 1982-) editor Print version African migration narratives. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018 9781580469340 (DLC) 2018047468 (OCoLC)1056202582 Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora