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The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
104,99 € |
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Verlag: | Lexington Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 23.06.2010 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780739145135 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 176 |
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Beschreibungen
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant literary tradition: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. By studying these women together, Ayo A. Coly innovatively introduces gender into prevailing theories of Francophone African migrant literatures. These theories, in line with the current surge of postnationalism in cultural criticism, claim that questions of home and nationhood are obsolete for the present generation of Francophone African migrant writers, but this book shows that the opposite is true in the texts of these writers. Coly is thus able to demonstrate how claims of postnationalism are often skewed by gender-blind understandings of nationalism, namely a failure to consider that women have traditionally been the sites for discourses and practices of nationalism. Amid the negative currency of home and nation in contemporary cultural criticism, including postcolonial criticism, this book contends that home remains a politically, ideologically, and emotionally loaded matter for postcolonial subjects.
Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. Coly studies what home means in the context of migration and how gender shapes the meaning of home. This is the first study to bring together migrant women from Francophone Africa. This is also the first study to offer a feminist critique of postnationalist discourses of home, specifically the application of postnationalism to the postcolonial context.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Of Uprooted and Deterritorialized Africans
<br>Part 2 Part I. Ken Bugul: From Self-Imposed Exile to Constrained Homecoming
<br>Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The (non)Place of the Daughter of the Postcolonial House:
<i>Le Baobab fou</i> and
<i>Cendres et braises</i>
<br>Chapter 4 Chapter 2: No Place Like the (non)Place: Striving to Come Home in
<i>Cendres et braises</i> and
<i>Riwan ou le chemin de sable</i>
<br>Part 5 Part II. Calixthe Beyala: The Conflicted Immigrant Standpoint
<br>Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Aborted Postnationalism?
<i>C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée</i> and
<i>Tu t'appelleras Tanga</i>
<br>Chapter 7 Chapter 4: (Un)Writing France as Home: The Belleville Novels
<br>Chapter 8 Chapter 5: From African Guest to Afro-French Hostess: Producing an Acceptable Immigrant Geography of Home in
<i>Amours Sauvages</i>
<br>Part 9 Part III. Fatou Diome: The Anti-Immigrant Standpoint
<br>Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Globalization and the Revival of the Anticolonial and Nationalist narrative of Home:
<i>La préférence nationale</i> and
<i>Le ventre de l'Atlantique</i>
<br>Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Bounded Homelessness as a Strategy:
<i>La préférence nationale</i> and
<i>Le ventre de l'Atlantique</i>
<br>Chapter 12 Conclusion: Reinstating the Nation as an object of Postcolonially Correct Interest
<br>Part 2 Part I. Ken Bugul: From Self-Imposed Exile to Constrained Homecoming
<br>Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The (non)Place of the Daughter of the Postcolonial House:
<i>Le Baobab fou</i> and
<i>Cendres et braises</i>
<br>Chapter 4 Chapter 2: No Place Like the (non)Place: Striving to Come Home in
<i>Cendres et braises</i> and
<i>Riwan ou le chemin de sable</i>
<br>Part 5 Part II. Calixthe Beyala: The Conflicted Immigrant Standpoint
<br>Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Aborted Postnationalism?
<i>C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée</i> and
<i>Tu t'appelleras Tanga</i>
<br>Chapter 7 Chapter 4: (Un)Writing France as Home: The Belleville Novels
<br>Chapter 8 Chapter 5: From African Guest to Afro-French Hostess: Producing an Acceptable Immigrant Geography of Home in
<i>Amours Sauvages</i>
<br>Part 9 Part III. Fatou Diome: The Anti-Immigrant Standpoint
<br>Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Globalization and the Revival of the Anticolonial and Nationalist narrative of Home:
<i>La préférence nationale</i> and
<i>Le ventre de l'Atlantique</i>
<br>Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Bounded Homelessness as a Strategy:
<i>La préférence nationale</i> and
<i>Le ventre de l'Atlantique</i>
<br>Chapter 12 Conclusion: Reinstating the Nation as an object of Postcolonially Correct Interest
Ayo A. Coly is assistant professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College.