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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Migration Turn in African Cultural Productions 1
5. Part One. African Migration on the Screen: Films of Migration
6. 1 Harragas, Global Subjects, and Failed Deterritorializations: The Tragedies of Illegal Mediterranean Crossings in Maghrebi Cinema 17
7. 2 Nollywood Comedies and Visa Lotteries: Welfare States, Borders, and Migration as Random Invitation 39
8. 3 Accented Cinema: The Context of Nollywood 55
9. 4 Migrations and Re presentations: The Cinema of Griot Dani Kouyaté 68
10. Part Two. Forgotten Diasporas: Lusophone and Indian Diasporas
11. 5 Mami Wata, Migra tions, and Miscegenation: Transculturalism in José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto, and Germano Almeida 85
12. 6 Poor Migrant: Pover ty and Striving in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People and The Pickup 101
13. 7 Reimaging Blacknes s in a Hybridized and Racialized Space: The Visual Landscapes of the Peruvian District of El Carmen, Chincha 114
14. Part Three. Migration against the Grain: Narratives of Return
15. 8 Reading Space, Sub jectivity, and Form in the Twenty-First-Century Narrative of Return 141
16. 9 Looking for Transw onderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Migration of the Heart 160
17. 10 The Literary Circulation of Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief 173
18. 11 Speculative Migration and the Project of Futurity in Sylvestre Amoussou’s Africa Paradis 189
19. Part Four. Migration and Difference: Indigeneity, Race, Religion, and Poetry at the Margins
20. 12 Monkeys from Hell , Toubabs in Africa 201
21. 13 Mapping “Sacred” Space in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Minaret 222
22. 14 Waris Dirie, FGM, and the Authentic Voice 239
23. 15 Esiaba Irobi: Poe try at the Margins 256
24. Bibliography 279
25. Notes on Contributors 301
26. Index 303