Dynamics of Mobility in African Languages and Literatures

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Opportunities and Challenges

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book is creates avenues for reflecting on the place of language and literature in the formation of contemporary African identities and institutions in the global age. The works explored in this book include those written by people of African descent in the continent and “physically and culturally mobile writers” in the diaspora. Africa has been the center of movement and interconnectedness of diverse people and geographies for centuries. Furthermore, both physical and virtual mobility via contemporary technologies such as the internet have brought about new words, hybrid cultures, identities and institutions that open up new avenues, opportunities and challenges to the continent and people of African descent at large. This book is a collection of twelve chapters that address the question of mobility in three thematic areas: Afro-diasporic cultures and literatures (Part 1); resistance and rebellion in the postcolonial era (Part 2); and resilience and challenges faced by African languages in the continent and the global stage (Part 3).

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-15
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666973310

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List of FiguresList of TablesAbout the ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMohamed Mwamzandi and Raphael BiryaPart One1. Far from Home but Never Far from Home: Exploring Swahili’s Diasporic LiteratureLeonard Muaka2. Breaking Chains of the Mind: African Immigrants' Battle with Mental Slavery in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed SquintJuliet Adaobi Chukwuma and Martha Michieka3. Carolina Maria de Jesus: Literature, Social Mobility, and Racial Justice from a Black Brazilian Woman’s PerspectiveMaria Carolina Almeida de Azevedo4. The Nervous Condition: An Analysis of Identity Crisis and Post/Colonial Survival in the African NovelDenis Waswa5. Colonial Legacies and Education Reform: Analyzing Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous ConditionsMohamed MwamzandiPart Two6. Curriculum and Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching English in TanzaniaBeatrice Mkenda7. The State of African Languages, Literatures and Global MobilityEsther Mukewa Lisanza8. Influence of “Kanga” on Swahili Culture in the Cultural Mobility EpochRaphael Birya9. Language and Creativity in Igbo Literature: A stylistic Examination of Chukuezi’s Udo ka MmaAnyachebelu, Adaora LoisConclusionRaphael Birya and Mohamed Mwamzandi

This seminal work presents important reflections, against the backdrop of African literature, on the construction of the identity of Africans on the continent and diaspora after the end of colonialist oppression. Despite the expulsion of the colonizers, their languages still guide the production of this intellectuality that, using the concept of mobility, explores the challenges that this neocolonial world poses to us so that we do not uncritically assume the European identity.