Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction: The Migration Turn in African Cultural Productions

pp 1-16

Part One - African Migration on the Screen: Films of Migration

pp 17-18

1 - Harragas, Global Subjects, and Failed Deterritorializations: The Tragedies of Illegal Mediterranean Crossings in Maghrebi Cinema

pp 19-38

2 - Nollywood Comedies and Visa Lotteries: Welfare States, Borders, and Migration as Random Invitation

pp 39-54

3 - Accented Cinema: The Context of Nollywood

pp 55-67

4 - Migrations and Representations: The Cinema of Griot Dani Kouyaté

pp 68-84

Part Two - Forgotten Diasporas: Lusophone and Indian Diasporas

pp 85-86

5 - Mami Wata, Migrations, and Miscegenation: Transculturalism in José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida

pp 87-100

6 - Poor Migrant: Poverty and Striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's People and The Pickup

pp 101-113

7 - Reimaging Blackness in a Hybridized and Racialized Space: The Visual Landscapes of the Peruvian District of El Carmen, Chincha

pp 114-140

Part Three - Migration against the Grain: Narratives of Return

pp 141-142

8 - Reading Space, Subjectivity, and Form in the Twenty-First-Century Narrative of Return

pp 143-159

9 - Looking for Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the Heart

pp 160-172

10 - The Literary Circulation of Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief

pp 173-188

11 - Speculative Migration and the Project of Futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa Paradis

pp 189-200

Part Four - Migration and Difference: Indigeneity, Race, Religion, and Poetry at the Margins

pp 201-202

12 - Monkeys from Hell, Toubabs in Africa

pp 203-221

13 - Mapping “Sacred” Space in Leila Aboulela's The Translator and Minaret

pp 222-238

14 - Waris Dirie, FGM, and the Authentic Voice

pp 239-255

15 - Esiaba Irobi: Poetry at the Margins

pp 256-278

Bibliography

pp 279-300

Notes on Contributors

pp 301-302

Index

pp 303-310