African Migration and the Novel – Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental …

African Migration and the NovelExploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction\nAuthor(s): Jack Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781648250910, 978-1648250910\nSynopsis\nExamines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration.\n\nAfrican Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking, and political violence through the lens of novels of African migration. The book details how authors such as Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, In Koli Jean Bofane, Boubacar Boris Diop, and others develop \""the migratory imagination\"": the creative means mobilized within their novels to expose the reader to contemporary social issues. Drawing on and synthesizing a mu.