Transcultural Modernities

Narrating Africa in Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2538-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Reihe: Matatu

The swelling flows of migration from Africa towards Europe have aroused interest not only in the socio-political consequences of the migrants’ insistent appeals to ‘fortress Europe’ but also in the artistic integration of African migrants into the cultural world of Europe. While in recent years the creative output of Africans living in Europe has received attention from the media and in academia, little critical consideration has been given to African migrants’ modes of narration and the manner in which these modes give expression to, or are an expression of, their creators’ transcultural realities. Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe responds to this need for reflection by examining the manner in which migrants compose and negotiate their Euro-African affiliations in their narratives. The book brings together scholars in the fields of literary and art criticism, cultural studies, and anthropology for an extensive interdisciplinary exchange on the specific modes of narration displayed in Euro-African literatures, the visual arts, and cinema, as well as offering ethnographic case studies. The result is a wide range of reflections on how African artists, writers, and ordinary people living in Europe experience and explore their transcultural and/or postcolonial environments, and how their experiences and explorations in turn contribute to the construction of modern Euro-African life-worlds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bekers, Elisabeth

Helff, Sissy

Merolla, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
New Euro-African Literary Spaces
Sabrina BRANCATO: Voices Lost in a Non-Place: African Writing in Spain
Peter N. PEDRONI: Kossi Komla–Ebri and Migrant Writing in Italy
Daniela MEROLLA: Poetics of Transition: Africa and Dutch Literary Space
Elisabeth BEKERS: Chronicling Beyond Abyssinia: African Writing in Flanders, Belgium
Eila RANTONEN: African Voices in Finland and Sweden
Literary Perspectives
Frank SCHULZE–ENGLER: Transcultural Modernities and Anglophone African Literature
Susan ARNDT: Euro-African Trans-Spaces? Migration, Transcultural Narration and Literary Studies
Elisabeth BEKERS: Culture in Transit: The Migration of Female Genital Excision to Europe in Euro-African Writing
Susanne GEHRMANN: Black Masculinity, Migration and Psychological Crisis: A Reading of Simon Njami’s African Gigolo
Elisa DIALLO: Polyphony, Old ‘Lyonnais’ and Animism: Africa in Urban Europe in Un Rêve utile de Tierno Monénembo
Nadia BUTT: Negotiating Untranslatability and Islam in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator
Obododimma OHA: ‘Occupying the Isolated Terminal Space and Silent’: The Rhetoric of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Poetry of Femi Oyebode
Daria TUNCA: Linguistic Counterpoint in Gbenga Agbenugba’s Another Lonely Londoner
Visual and Cinematographic Narratives
Alex ROTAS: New Labels, But It’s Still Labelling: Ibrahim El Salahi and Mohamed Bushara as ‘Asylum Artists’ in the UK
Marie–Christine PRESS: North African Modernities: Myth Stripped Bare
Daphne PAPPERS: Spies in the Sixteenth Arrondissement: Myriam Mihindou Exhibits at the Musée Dapper in Paris
Jacobia DAHM: Emigrants and Immigrants of Burkina Faso, Senegal, and France: Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire De. and S. Pierre Yameogo’s Moi et mon blanc
Marie–Hélène GUTBERLET: Towards an Aesthetic of the Migrant Self: The Film Le Clandestin by José Zeka Laplaine
Nwachukwu Frank UKADIKE: Critical Dialogues: Transcultural Modernities and Modes of Narrating Africa in Documentary Films
Imagining Life – Narrating Stories
Graham HUGGAN: Imagining Disaster in the African Postcolony
Sissy HELFF: Refugee Life Narratives: The Disturbing Potential of a Genre and the Case of Mende Nazer
Katrin BERNDT: Shared Paradoxes in Namibian and German History: Lucia Engombe’s Kind Nr. 95
Annika LIEBY–MCPHERSON: From Utopia to Atopia to Diaspora? Social (Re-)Organization in a German Refugee Home
Bettina HORN–UDEZE: “Here in Europe it’s like a secret cult”: A Nigerian Migrant’s Narration of Initiation into the System of Migration
Christine MATZKE: “Performing ‘Africa’” in Germany: Members of abok Theatre Company in Conversation
Fouad LAROUI: Misunderstandings: Working Euro-African Life into Fiction
Creative Writing
Fouad LAROUI: Le Pyjama bleu
Chika UNIGWE: Cotton Candy
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Notes for Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

ELISABETH BEKERS is Lecturer in British and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Brussels (VUB) and also teaches Literatures in English at the University of Antwerp. SISSY HELFF is a senior lecturer in English literary and cultural studies in the Department for the New Literatures in English at the University of Frankfurt. DANIELA MEROLLA is a senior lecturer in African literatures in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Africa, Leiden University.

Contributors: Susan Arndt, Elisabeth Bekers, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Nadia Butt, Jacobia Dahm, Elisa Diallo, Susanne Gehrmann, Marie–Hélène Gutberlet, Sissy Helff, Bettina Horn–Udeze, Graham Huggan, Fouad Laroui, Annika McPherson, Christine Matzke, Daniela Merolla, Obododimma Oha, Peter Pedroni, Daphne Pappers, Marie–Christine Press, Eila Rantonen, Alex Rotas, Frank Schulze–Engler, Daria Tunca, Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike.