Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Migratory Imagination
- 1 Migration, Sexual Exploitation, and the Form of the Afterlife of Slavery: Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street and Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail
- 2 Refugee Livelihood, Racial Disorientation, and Mourning and Melancholy: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air
- 3 Hospitality, Forgiveness, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in the Paris Suburbs: Wilfried N’Sondè’s The Heart of the Leopard Children and The Silence of the Spirits
- 4 Migration and the Rwandan Genocide: Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi: The Book of Bones and Gilbert Gatore’s The Past Ahead
- 5 Environmental Devastation and Accumulation by Dispossession: Ishmael Beah’s Radiance of Tomorrow and In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo INC.
- Coda
- Works Cited
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Migratory Imagination
- 1 Migration, Sexual Exploitation, and the Form of the Afterlife of Slavery: Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street and Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail
- 2 Refugee Livelihood, Racial Disorientation, and Mourning and Melancholy: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air
- 3 Hospitality, Forgiveness, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in the Paris Suburbs: Wilfried N’Sondè’s The Heart of the Leopard Children and The Silence of the Spirits
- 4 Migration and the Rwandan Genocide: Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi: The Book of Bones and Gilbert Gatore’s The Past Ahead
- 5 Environmental Devastation and Accumulation by Dispossession: Ishmael Beah’s Radiance of Tomorrow and In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo INC.
- Coda
- Works Cited
- Index
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- African Migration and the NovelExploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024