1st Edition
Postcolonial Disillusionment and Migration in African Literature
Introduction: Postcolonial Disillusionment and Migration in African Literature
Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade and Sone Mirabeau Enongene
Part 1: Trends in Portrayal of Postcolonial Disillusionment
1.Trends in Postcolonial Disillusionment in Africa
Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade and Sone Mirabeau Enongene
2. Postcolonial Disillusionment and Failed Resistance in Nigerian Fiction: Antinomies and the Possibilities of a Transformative Future
Israel Oluwaseun Adeleke
3 Exploring Military Tyranny and Disillutionment in the Postcolony in Joy Chinwokwu’s Clouds at Sunrise
Kehinde Omojola
4. Post-colonial Disillusionment in Oginga Odinga’s Not Yet Uhuru
James Chawinga
5. Multifaceted Disillusionment in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Study of Zakes Mda’s Mother Of All Eating
Funmilola Kemi Megbowon
6. Mutual Distrust, Ethnic Tensions and Neo-Colonial Unease as Disillusionment in Rwanda: The Case of Fergal Keane's Season of Blood and Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches
Eleanor Anneh Dasi
7. Beyond Leadership: Inverted Disillusionment in Postcolonial African Literature
Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade
8. Disillusionment, Women, And Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Njeng Eric
Part 2: African Culture as Agent for Postcolonial Reorder
9. Myth and Social Reordering in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising
Divine Che Neba
10. Ritual (M)Othering, the Mythological Contestations of Postcolonial Nationhood and Forms of Disillusionment in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Kundai Watson Fingson & Kudzayi Ngara
Part 3: Migration as Consequence of Disillusionment
11. Place, Disillusionment, and Displacement: The Afropolitan-Self as an Alternative Order in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Memory of Departure
Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo
12. Diasporic Journeys in Francophone African Literature: Understanding Migration, Subalternity, and Disenchantment
Lilian Dooshima Dugguh and Chris Michael Kuju
13. From Hope to Disillusionment: The Fallacy of North African Arab/Muslim Immigrants’ Integration in Fawzia Zouari’s I Die by This Country
Robert Moyo
14. Displaced Dreams: African Fictions of Migrancy at the Crossroads of Hope and Despair
Laura A. Zander
15. The Lion's Point of View: Examining Clandestine Migration in Postcolonial African Fiction and Film
Rita Keresztesi
16. Tanzanian Diasporic Disillusionment and the Cruel Promise of Happiness in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Heart and M.G. Vassanji’s No New Land
Delores B. Phillips
Biography
Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade is a postdoctoral research fellow at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.
Enongene Mirabeau Sone is a Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies, and Chair of the Department of Arts, Faculty of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.
