Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature)

Toivanen, Anna-Leena

Brill（2021/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004442726
• DDC分類 809.8896

Full Description

In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms, Anna-Leena Toivanen combines mobilities research, postcolonial literary studies, and theories of cosmopolitanism to explore the representations and often complex intertwinements of different mobility practices and cosmopolitanisms in contemporary Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 1 Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complex Relations, Shortcomings, and Unease

 2 Mobilities, Representation, and the Literary Form

 3 Outline of the Book and Chapter Summaries

PART 1

Trouble in the Business Class

1 Anxious Mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story

 1 Automobility: Undecidedness in the Streets of Accra

 2 Hotels as In-between Spaces

 3 Transnational Business Class Travel: Afropolitans avant la lettre

 4 Conclusion: Freedom of Movement?

2 The Hotel as a Space of Transit in Sefi Atta's and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Short Stories

 1 Atta's Hotel: A Chronotope of Hypermobility, Inequality, and Unbelonging

 2 Adichie's Hotel Room: Adulterous Space between the Domestic and the Public

 3 Conclusion: Being in Transit, Longing for Home

3 Uneasy 'Homecoming' in Alain Mabanckou's Lumières de Pointe-Noire

 1 Returnee: A Tourist-Native

 2 Nostalgia and Loss

 3 Returned Gazes, Unbalanced Dialogues

 4 Blind Spot behind the Camera: La blanche

 5 Conclusion: Problematics of a Business Class Return

PART 2

Budget Travels, Practical Cosmopolitanisms

4 New Technologies and Communication Gaps in Novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 1 Formal Matters: The Mobile Poetics of Communication Technologies

 2 Technological Advances - From Letters to Email and Skype

 3 Creating Distance: Communication Gaps

 4 Conclusion: Ruptured Dialogues and Unbalanced Cosmopolitanisms

5 Everyday Urban Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs

 1 Cartographies of Paris

 2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Survival in a New Environment

 3 Peripheral Dead Ends

 4 Conclusion: Managing the Metropolis through Mobility

6 European Peripheries and Practical Cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure

 1 Peripheries and the Dream of "la grosse Europe"

 2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Limits and Potentials

 3 Conclusion: Out of Reach? Centres and Cosmopolitan Ideals

PART 3

Abject Travels of Citizens of Nowhere

7 Failing Border Crossings and Cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava's Harare North

 1 Cosmopolitanism as an Active Engagement

 2 Instances of Anti-cosmopolitanism

 3 Non-dialogue and Linguistic Nonconformity

 4 Parodying the Afropolitan

 5 Abject Unbelonging

 6 Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism's Breakdown

8 Arrested Clandestine Odysseys in Sefi Atta's "Twilight Trek" and Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes

 1 Erased Identities

 2 Tropes of Mobility: Shoes, Trucks, and Boats

 3 Sand and Sea: The Slavery Parallel

 4 Conclusion: Precarious Journeys

9 Zombie Travels
J. R. Essomba's Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore

 1 Tropes of Zombifying Mobilities: Hiding, Confinement, Dehumanisation, and Darkness

 2 Not Feeling It: Lost Selves, Lost Emotions

 3 Europe and the Failures of Cosmopolitanism

 4 Eliminating the Zombie

 5 Conclusion: The Poetics of Zombification

Coda

Bibliography

Index