Transnational Citizenship and Dreams of Belonging in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Cultures of Citizenship 9
4. Fluidity in Space and Time
5. Citizenship in Time 23
6. John MacKenzie’s Letters I Didn’t Write 43
7. Transnational Citizenship and Dreams of Belonging in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers 57
8. Citizenship and (State) Violence
9. “Present Absentees, Weak-Kneed Nobodies” 79
10. “You’ve Heard It Now” 111
11. “Clean Body, Clean Mind, Clean Job” 131
12. Between Imprisonment and Citizenship 155
13. Performing Citizenship
14. Paragon of Aging, Paragon of Voting 177
15. Making Material Borders 195
16. Citizenship of the Dead 217
17. “We had to control the narrative” 233
18. “To Couple the Beauty of the Place and the Harsh Realities of Its Racist History” 251
19. Citizenship, Science, and Medicine
20. “What the Eyes Don’t See” 271
21. Foreign Relations 291
22. “You’re My People Now” 311
23. Appendix
24. Contributors 335