Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures

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ID2179468
AuthorsAnna-Leena Toivanen (0000-0003-4588-2484)
Year2021
Volume57
Issue3
Pages358-371
Publication date2021-05-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2021.1921960
OpenAlexW3163892374
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited31

Paris is the axiomatic centre of francophone African literary representations of Europe. Focusing on narratives that revise Paris-centeredness, this article explores francophone African representations of European peripheries from the perspective of Afroeuropean (im)mobilities. The article shows how, in novels by Michèle Rakotoson, Kidi Bebey, Simon Njami, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, three specific Afroeuropean mobile subjectivities, namely the newcomer, the holidaymaker, and the clandestine migrant, produce very different meanings of European peripheries. While the meanings of peripheral spaces in the novels vary and, thus, attest to the complexity of the concept of the periphery and point to a shift from a national framework towards a continental one, the texts simultaneously articulate the perpetual pull of traditional centres

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnology · French · Humanities · Literature · Mobilities · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration, Identity, and Health · Travel Writing and Literature · Gender Studies · History

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