African Migration Narratives

CAJETAN IHEKA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. JACK TAYLOR is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

• Introduction: The Migration Turn in African Cultural ProductionsHarragas, Global Subjects, and Failed Deterritorializations: The Tragedies of Illegal Mediterranean Crossings in Maghrebi CinemaNollywood Comedies and Visa Lotteries: Welfare States, Borders, and Migration as Random InvitationAccented Cinema: Chineze Anyaene's Ije: The JourneyMigrations and Representations: The Cinema by the Griot Dani KouyatéMamiwata, Migrations, and Miscegenation: Transculturalism in Mia Couto, José Agualusa, and Germano AlmeidaPoor Migrant: Poverty and Striving in Nadine Gordimer's July's People and The Pickup(Re-)imaging Blackness : The Visual Landscapes of El Carmen, a Peruvian DistrictReading Space, Subjectivity, and Form in the Twenty-First Century Narrative of ReturnLooking for Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa's Migration of the HeartThe Literary Circulation of Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the ThiefSpeculative Migration and the Project of Futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa ParadisMonkeys from Hell, Toubabs in AfricaMapping (Sacred) Space in Leila Aboulela's FictionVoice of the Cosmopolitan NomadEsiaba Irobi: Poetry at the MarginsBibliography

Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor's edited collection is a refreshing addition to the scholarship on African migration. Not only does it privilege and represent the dynamics of African migration across different countries in Africa, through its representation of migration from different cultural productions, it emphasizes that to adequately understand an issue that has seemingly defined a people, all systems and genres of cultural production and means of self-representation should be assessed.