1st Edition
Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures
Introduction: Decolonial migrations in African diasporic literatures
1. Coloniality, migrancy and the African migrant experience in literatures of migration
2. Coloniality of being and the immigrant experience in No-Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013)
3. Race and Coloniality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013)
4. The violence of modernity: Race, Class, and the everyday immigrant experience in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016)
5. Black-on-black Violence, Estrangement, Home, Belonging, and the Coloniality of Being in Dave Eggers’ What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
6. Coloniality of migration and the racialised immigrant in Helon Habila’s Travellers (2019)
7. Coloniality, (i)mmobility and African migrancy
Biography
Peter Moopi is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (2018-2019), the University of Michigan’s Presidential Scholarship Programme (UMAPS) (2022) and a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.
