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Conscripts of Migration - Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas (Paperback)
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Conscripts of Migration - Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas (Paperback)
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In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism,
and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian
Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of
global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription
and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on immigration,
whether liberal or conservative, popular or scholarly, leaves out
the history in which the Global North helped create outward
migration in the Global South. From histories of racial capitalism,
the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and imperialism to contemporary
neoliberal globalization and the resurgence of xenophobic
nationalism, countries in the Global North continue to devastate
and destabilize the Global South. Britain, France, Italy, and the
United States, in different ways, police the effects of their own
global policies at their borders. Foster provides a substantial
study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature
called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas
of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born
after independence in the 1960s. Most often migritude authors have
lived both in and outside Africa and narrate the experiences of
migration under the pressures of globalization. They also emphasize
that immigration itself and stereotypes of the immigrant are
entangled with the history of colonialism. Authors like Fatou
Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, Cristina Ali Farah, and
others confront critical issues of migrancy, diaspora, departure,
return, racism, identity, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality.
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