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100	1		_aCole, Ernest, _d1965- _eauthor. _9144146
245	1	0	_aMigration and return in modern African literature : _bblack bodies in white spaces / _cErnest Cole.
260			_aRochester : _bUniversity of Rochester Press, _c2025.
300			_a220 pages ; _c23 cm.
490	0		_aRochester studies in African history and the diaspora, _x1092-5228
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
505	0		_aReasons for departure -- Unfulfilled dreams -- Disillusionment and death -- Psychological depression -- Challenges to reintegration -- The new hybridity -- Constructive liminality.
520			_a"Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment, and the impulse to return. The experiences of African migrants in the diaspora are deeply inflected by the condition of living as Black bodies in white spaces. In this work, author Ernest Cole examines closely the narratives of migration and return presented in nine powerful novels by authors who include Chimamanda Andichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Teju Cole, and others. The novels reveal a reversal of expectations that migrants from Africa experience upon arrival in the West, a reversal prompted in part by the racial prejudice they are confronted with as Black individuals. As the author notes, the novels also illustrate the desire to return to the homeland as a better alternative to the precarious life in the West, even though such a move is not without its complications. The study is divided into two parts with seven chapters. The first three chapters deal with the novels' depictions of migrants' experiences in the West and the last four focus on the journey home. Collectively, the chapters lay out three phases in the migration process: departure from home, disillusionment in the West, and return to the country of origin. Within this framework, the book uses displacement and dislocation to examine a host of themes-social alienation, alterity, and the precarity of Africans in the diaspora"--
650		0	_aAfrican fiction (English) _xHistory and criticism. _9144147
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration in literature. _9144148
650		0	_aImmigrants in literature. _9144149
650		0	_aBlack people in literature. _9119633
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aCole, Ernest. _tMigration and return in modern African literature _dRochester : University of Rochester Press, 2025 _z9781805436188 _w(DLC) 2024046708
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