{"product_id":"transit-lit-fictions-of-migration-in-twenty-first-century-african-immigrant-literature-paperback-softback-9780810149335","title":"Transit Lit; Fictions of Migration in Twenty-First-Century African Immigrant Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810149335","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransit Lit\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFictions of Migration in Twenty-First-Century African Immigrant Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCameron Leader-Picone (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810149335, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTransit Lit\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious and timely project that makes a significant contribution to studies of new African diasporic literature in the United States. Organized and well researched, this book promises to help define future conversations in the field.\" - Stephanie Li, Duke University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The expanding number of migrants to the United States from continental Africa since the 1960s has led to a flourishing twenty-first-century literary corpus by immigrants and the children of immigrants. \u003ci\u003eTransit Lit: Fictions of Migration in Twenty-First-Century African Immigrant Literature \u003c\/i\u003eanalyzes key works by African immigrant authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, and Yaa Gyasi to argue that such texts reveal the tensions between the authors' own cosmopolitan ideals and a necessary critique of how such ideals become co-opted and commodified within contemporary geopolitics. Cameron Leader-Picone offers a new conceptual framework for reading contemporary diasporic texts that do not fit easily into national or continental traditions or previous literary models. Instead, he argues for the need to embrace the overlapping instabilities - of meaning, identity, and citizenship - that characterize twenty-first-century diasporic movement in an interconnected world. These texts, and the constructions of identity that they trace, map the terrain of contemporary migration.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA Note on Terminology \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eldquo It is high time the African stood up\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003erdquo \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Campus and Cosmopolitanism \u003cbr\u003e 2. Afropolitanism and the African \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eldquo Good Immigrant\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003erdquo Narrative \u003cbr\u003e 3. Immigrant Metafictions and the Narrativizing of Bureaucracy \u003cbr\u003e 4. Afro-pessimist Narratives, Critical Cosmopolitanism, and Democracy \u003cbr\u003e 5. Slavery, Colonialism, and Conceptualizing Diaspora \u003cbr\u003e Coda: Xenophobia and Cosmopolitan Optimism \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555668226328,"sku":"9780810149335","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transit-lit-fictions-of-migration-in-twenty-first-century-african-immigrant-literature-paperback-softback-9780810149335","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}