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This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces.
The book starts by building a picture of cosmopolitanism thinking from the European Enlightenment through to key postcolonial thinkers like Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, and Arjun Appadurai. However, the book shows that far from a picture of diverse groups coming together in mutual respect, in fact cosmopolitanism is affected by mutual phobias between migrants and their host cultures. These phobias stem from (ethno)racism, Islamophobia, classicism, clannism, xenophobia, and mutual superiority and inferiority complexes. In building this analysis, the book considers key texts from Ayaan Hirsi, Yasmeen Maxamuud, Jonny Steinberg, Nuruddin Farah, and Santur Ghedi, with settings that range from North America, Canada, Norway, Holland, Germany, South Africa, Saudi Arabia to East Africa.
Considering literature on the Somali diaspora within the context of major cosmopolitan theories and postcolonial inflexions, this book is an important contribution to contemporary sociopolitical conversations, and will be of interest to researchers across literary and cultural studies.
Contents
1. Introduction: Contextualizing Cosmopolitanism and Phobia
2. Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and Diasporic Somali Literature
3. Performance Sites for Cosmopolitanisms: Somali Diasporic Literature in Yasmeen Maxamuud's Nomad Diaries
4. In the Margins of Afropolitanism: Somali Intra-African Mobilities and Anxieties in Jonny Steinberg's A Man of Good Hope
5. Estranged Guests: Making of a Terrorist in Hassan Santur's The Youth of God and Nuruddin Farah's North of Dawn
6. Somali Infidels and Pariahs: Constructed Phobias, Fractured Selves and, Ideal Cosmopolitanism in Ayaan Hirsi's Infidel and Nomad
7. Conclusion : Phobic Cosmopolitanism, Ambivalent Presence
