Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration--Provided by publisher.

• Frontcover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Migration Turn in African Cultural Productions
• Part One. African Migration on the Screen: Films of Migration
  • 1 Harragas, Global Subjects, and Failed Deterritorializations: The Tragedies of Illegal Mediterranean Crossings in Maghrebi Cinema
  • 2 Nollywood Comedies and Visa Lotteries: Welfare States, Borders, and Migration as Random Invitation
  • 3 Accented Cinema: The Context of Nollywood
  • 4 Migrations and Representations: The Cinema of Griot Dani Kouyaté
• Part Two. Forgotten Diasporas: Lusophone and Indian Diasporas
  • 5 Mami Wata, Migra tions, and Miscegenation: Transculturalism in José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida
  • 6 Poor Migrant: Pover ty and Striving in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People and The Pickup
  • 7 Reimaging Blacknes s in a Hybridized and Racialized Space: The Visual Landscapes of the Peruvian District of El Carmen, Chincha
• Part Three. Migration against the Grain: Narratives of Return
  • 8 Reading Space, Sub jectivity, and Form in the Twenty-First-Century Narrative of Return
  • 9 Looking for Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Migration of the Heart
  • 10 The Literary Circ ulation of Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief
  • 11 Speculative Migration and the Project of Futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou’s Africa Paradis
• Part Four. Migration and Difference: Indigeneity, Race, Religion, and Poetry at the Margins
  • 12 Monkeys from Hell , Toubabs in Africa
  • 13 Mapping “Sacred” Space in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Minaret
  • 14 Waris Dirie, FGM, and the Authentic Voice
  • 15 Esiaba Irobi: Poe try at the Margins
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index