“Bodies on the Move”: Examining the Quest for Migration in the Postcolonial Africa Novel
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Date
2022
Authors
Chepkwony, Mark Kipkoech
Mutie, Stephen Muthoka
Goro, Nicholas Kamau
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eajass
Abstract
The scholarship of cosmopolitanism and migrations, in many forms, narrative, artistic, and cultural continues to influence and inform our experiences as global citizens navigating an increasingly complicated global environment. This paper aims to re(map) these notions, whichcalls for reconsideration, re-evaluation, and emphasizing the importance of cosmopolitanism as reflected in literature. There has been an exponential increase in studies on cosmopolitanism in literature during the last two decades. This tendency is directly tied with transnational interconnection and experiences with a difference in a way that has never been seen before as a result of cross-border commerce, migration, mobility, media, and consumption. This paper interrogates Open City by Teju Cole; We NeedNew Names by No Violet Bulawayo, Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasie and Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego to underscore how they use cosmopolitanism as the main idea.
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Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, xenophobia, Afropolitanism
Citation
Chepkwony, M. K.,Muthoka, M. S.&Kamau, G. N.(2022). “Bodies on the Move”: Examining the Quest for Migration in the Postcolonial Africa Novel.East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 5(1), 339-353. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.5.1.753