Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas - Couverture rigide

Foster, Christopher Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1496824210 ISBN 13 : 9781496824219

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2019

Synopsis

In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on immigration, whether liberal or conservative, popular or scholarly, leaves out the history in which the Global North helped create outward migration in the Global South. From histories of racial capitalism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and imperialism to contemporary neoliberal globalization and the resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, countries in the Global North continue to devastate and destabilize the Global South. Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, in different ways, police the effects of their own global policies at their borders.

Foster provides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s. Most often migritude authors have lived both in and outside Africa and narrate the experiences of migration under the pressures of globalization. They also emphasize that immigration itself and stereotypes of the immigrant are entangled with the history of colonialism. Authors like Fatou Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, Cristina Ali Farah, and others confront critical issues of migrancy, diaspora, departure, return, racism, identity, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Ian Foster teaches in the International Studies Program at Colorado State University. His work has appeared in publications such as Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Journal of Narrative Theory, and South Asian Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496824210
• ISBN 13: 9781496824219
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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