"The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, the book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not so well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the "diasporic consciousness" of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies"--
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. It investigates three major aesthetic paradigms: Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants.
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, the book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa).
Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not so well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the diasporic consciousness of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings.
This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Trends in the New African Diasporic Literature
Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide
Part I: The Sankofan Wave (late 1960s early 1990s)
A. Anglophone Perspectives
1. The Shapeshifter in Ngg wa Thiongos Migrant Writing
Gchingiri Ndgrg
2. Abdulrazak Gurnah and V.S. Naipaul: Memory of Departure vs. Enigma of
Arrival
Simon Keith Lewis
3. Paradise Destroyed: Exile and Diaspora in Abdulrazak Gurnahs Paradise and
NoViolet Bulawayos We Need New Names
Joya Uraizee
4. Diaspora as Motif in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula and
Lupenga Mphande
Dike Okoro
5. Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World Archives
Uhuru Portia Phalafala
6. Contextualizing Racism and Humanity in Dennis Brutuss Poetry
Kehinde Akano
7. Zoė Wicomb and the Poetics of Social Irony
Stefan Helgesson
8. Dizzy with the To-ing and Fro-ing: Diasporic Prose of the New South
Africa
Peter Blair
9. Cultural Displacement, Identity and Home in Buchi Emechetas Diasporic
Fiction
H. Oby Okolocha
10. Writing Against the Rift: Ben Okris Diasporic Consciousness Defies
Closure
Rosemary Gray
11. Troubadours, They Traverse: Global Vision and Diasporic Imagination in
the Poetry of Niyi Osundare and Tijan Sallah
Wumi Raji
12. The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place in Tanure Ojaides Diasporic
Poems
Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu
13. Living in the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
and Alfred Kisubi
Edoama Odueme
14. Tracing the Missing Link: Postcolonial Reconfigurations and Diasporic
Imaginaries in Funso Aiyejinas Writing
Olajumoke Verissimo
15. New African Diasporic Drama: Nigerian Meaning-Making Identities and
Ethos
Mabel Evwierhoma
16. (W)righting the African Diaspora: Tess Onwuemes Interrogation of African
Diasporic Trauma, History, and Belonging
Maureen N. Eke
B. Francophone Perspectives
17. Historical Afroeuropean and Transatlantic Mobilities in Contemporary
Francophone Afrodiasporic Fiction
Anna-Leena Toivanen
18. Ivoiritié in Tanella Bonis Exile Discourse
Honoré Missihoun
19. Tale(ing) Africa in a Global Context: War, Nature, and Pandemic in
Veronique Tadjos The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda and In
the Company of Men
Zaynab Ango
20. Congolese Trasnational/Diasporic Writers and their Multi-Pronged Fights
Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Part II: The Janusian Wave (1990s and 2020s)
A. Anglophone Perspectives
21. Benjamin Kwakye and Okey Ndibe: Migration and Diasporic Encounters
Joseph McLaren
22. Negotiating Home in the New World African Diasporic Wrtings: The Niger
Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and
Amatoritsero Ede
Mathias Iroro Orhero
23. Helon Habilas Narratives: Thematic Visions and Narratology in The Chibok
Girls and Travelers.
Effiok Bassey Uwatt
24. Diasporic Consciousness and Narrative Ambiguity in Short Stories by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chika Unigwe
Daria Tunca
25. Chika Unigwes Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant
Experience in Belgium, Europe.
Enajite Ojaruega
26. Chris Abani, The Anthropocene, and Transnational Ecoglobal Criticism
Sarah E. Turner
27. Dinaw Mengestus Diasporic Practice
Taylor Eggan
28. Cruel Optimism: The Longings of Outsiders Within Imbolo Mbues Behold the
Dreamers
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
29. The Poetics of Mobility, Proximity, and Embrace in Joyce Ashs A Basket
of Flaming Ashes (2010) and Beautiful Fire (2018)
Gilbert Shang Ndi
30. Holding the Global Gaze: The Image of Africa and the Unapologetic
Aesthetics of (Un)Belonging in the Second Wave New African Diasporic
Literatures: NoViolet Bulawayo, Sefi Atta, Zukiswa Wanner, and Nana Nkweti
Martha Ndakalako
31. The Poetics of Unhomeliness and Homemaking in Gabeba Baderoons Poetry
Nasseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally
32. The Transatlantic Turn in Laila Lalamis Migrant Writing
Ahmed Idrissi Alami
33. Postcolonial Diasporic Conjunctive Consciousness in Leila Aboulelas The
Translator
Lokangaka Losambe
B. Francophone Perspectives
34. Fatou Diome, Abdourahman Waberi, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Authors of
French Expression Writing in and for La Littérature-Monde
Valérie K. Orlando
35. Extending the Boundaries of Fiction and Identity in Alain Mabanckous
Black Bazar
Augustine H. Asaah
36. Calixthe Beyalas Literary Work Travels North
Ylva Lindberg
37. Calixthe Beyalas Your Name Shall Be Tanga: An African-Diasporic Anomaly
Christine Grogan
38. Politicizing the Universal of the African Diasporic Stage Space in
France
Brian Valente-Quinn
Part III: Offshoots of the New Arrivants (Born and Growing in Diasporic
Spaces)
A. Anglophone Perspectives
39. Who is Teju Cole? Or Is Teju Cole the Same as Julius?
Kenneth Harrow
40. Peace, Love, World: Helen Oyeyemis Peace Piece in Peaces
F. Fiona Moolla
41. Between Home and Away: Contemporary Black British Poetry
Jennifer Leetsch
42. Reading the New Diaspora in Yewande Omotosos Fiction
Christopher Ouma
B. Francophone and Lusophone
43. Marie NDiayes Un Temps de Saison: Native Hospitality and Going Native
in Rural France
Judith Still
44. Archives of Absence: Reconstituting Lives Asunder in Yara Monteiros
Essa Dama Bate Bué
Daniel F. Silva
45. Curly Hair as an Identity Marker: From Angola to Portugal
Cornesha Tweede
46. Crossing and Uncrossing: African Diaspora in Joaquim Arenas Reparative
Writing
Patricia Martinho Ferreira
Index
Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. Dr. Losambe also served as the president of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 20122013.
Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the UNC, Charlotte. He has published collections of poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and self-authored and co-authored scholarly books. Dr. Ojaide teaches and publishes on African Literature and Culture, the Folklore of Africa and the African Diaspora, and Globalization in African Poetry.
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