Migrant Forms

African Parade 's New Literary Geographies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9250243
AutoresSantana Santana (Harvard University Press, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas167
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
EditorialIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/reseafrilite.45.3.167
OpenAlexW2071307099
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

This article compares changing imaginations of African nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and the black diaspora through the lens of literary genre in two popular magazines, South Africa's Drum and its lesser-known contemporary from the Central African Federation, African Parade. As traveling literary systems that contain a variety of literary forms, popular magazines are useful for theorizing new relationships between genre and geography. In particular, I consider African Parade's use of interstitial "migrant forms" to map the simultaneously urban and rural, national and transnational contours of the federation. Migration is a thematic as well as a formal feature of these texts, which reconfigure narratives of permanent settlement in the city—a type of story that was popular in Drum and epitomized by the figure of the deterritorialized gangster, or tsotsi. By recasting the migrant as a figure who travels across categories (rural/urban, past/present, traditional/modern), African Parade expressed an alternative vision of the region's shifting geographies and left a lasting impact on its literary forms

Art · Art history · Diaspora · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Parade · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture