African Migration and the Novel : Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction

This book "explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking, and political violence through the lens of novels of African migration. [It] details how authors such as Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, In Koli Jean Bofane, Boubacar Boris Diop, and others develop 'the migratory imagination': the creative means mobilized within their novels to expose the reader to contemporary social issues. Drawing on and synthesizing a multitude of theoretical frameworks including ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, genre studies, Black studies, paratextual reading, and political economy, the book argues for the flexibility of the migration novel as a genre"--

Author: Jack Taylor

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024

Number of Pages: 219 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 1648250912

ISBN-13: 9781648250910