summary In Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, Kai Mikkonen
argues that early twentieth-century European travel writing, journal keeping, and fiction …

Although postcolonial studies has explored the historical influences and connections among
literatures throughout the world, it has considered African writing unique. By looking at …

“I am not an African.” The British-Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips was hit with this seemingly
simple but forceful realization in early 2003, while sitting inside a one-story house …

In black Africa, as in the rest of the ex-colonial world, the expansion of European colonial
interests was accompanied by the spread of Christianity and Western letters. Important to …

This essay proposes that the region is a formally and epistemologically distinct scale
through which to theorize the African novel. Intra-African migration becomes the trope …

This study examines the fiction of 21 st century African writers as a product of engagement
with the forces of globalization and the related notions of cosmopolitanism and the fact of …

ITERATURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY share a close, at times even intimate relationship in
the history of African letters. When, during the mid-twentieth century struggles against …

This study is concerned with contemporary African literature‟ s representation of African
migrations and diasporas in the West. The study seeks to grapple with how contemporary …

The argument of this essay is that colonized writers, always limited by their conditions of
production as citizens and subjects, had no choice but to deploy inherited European forms in …

This chapter addresses multifaceted forms of intra-continental migration such as
'voluntary'and 'forced', while being wary of totalising categories and of the porous …