Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
New Euro-African Literary Spaces
Sabrina BRANCATO: Voices Lost in a Non-Place: African Writing in
Spain
Peter N. PEDRONI: Kossi Komla–Ebri and Migrant Writing in Italy
Daniela MEROLLA: Poetics of Transition: Africa and Dutch Literary
Space
Elisabeth BEKERS: Chronicling Beyond Abyssinia: African Writing in
Flanders, Belgium
Eila RANTONEN: African Voices in Finland and Sweden
Literary Perspectives
Frank SCHULZE–ENGLER: Transcultural Modernities and Anglophone
African Literature
Susan ARNDT: Euro-African Trans-Spaces? Migration, Transcultural
Narration and Literary Studies
Elisabeth BEKERS: Culture in Transit: The Migration of Female
Genital Excision to Europe in Euro-African Writing
Susanne GEHRMANN: Black Masculinity, Migration and Psychological
Crisis: A Reading of Simon Njami’s African Gigolo
Elisa DIALLO: Polyphony, Old ‘Lyonnais’ and Animism: Africa in
Urban Europe in Un Rêve utile de Tierno Monénembo
Nadia BUTT: Negotiating Untranslatability and Islam in Leila
Aboulela’s The Translator
Obododimma OHA: ‘Occupying the Isolated Terminal Space and Silent’:
The Rhetoric of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Poetry of Femi
Oyebode
Daria TUNCA: Linguistic Counterpoint in Gbenga Agbenugba’s Another
Lonely Londoner
Visual and Cinematographic Narratives
Alex ROTAS: New Labels, But It’s Still Labelling: Ibrahim El Salahi
and Mohamed Bushara as ‘Asylum Artists’ in the UK
Marie–Christine PRESS: North African Modernities: Myth Stripped
Bare
Daphne PAPPERS: Spies in the Sixteenth Arrondissement: Myriam
Mihindou Exhibits at the Musée Dapper in Paris
Jacobia DAHM: Emigrants and Immigrants of Burkina Faso, Senegal,
and France: Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire De ... and S. Pierre
Yameogo’s Moi et mon blanc
Marie–Hélène GUTBERLET: Towards an Aesthetic of the Migrant Self:
The Film Le Clandestin by José Zeka Laplaine
Nwachukwu Frank UKADIKE: Critical Dialogues: Transcultural
Modernities and Modes of Narrating Africa in Documentary Films
Imagining Life – Narrating Stories
Graham HUGGAN: Imagining Disaster in the African Postcolony
Sissy HELFF: Refugee Life Narratives: The Disturbing Potential of a
Genre and the Case of Mende Nazer
Katrin BERNDT: Shared Paradoxes in Namibian and German History:
Lucia Engombe’s Kind Nr. 95
Annika LIEBY–MCPHERSON: From Utopia to Atopia to Diaspora? Social
(Re-)Organization in a German Refugee Home
Bettina HORN–UDEZE: “Here in Europe it’s like a secret cult”: A
Nigerian Migrant’s Narration of Initiation into the System of
Migration
Christine MATZKE: “Performing ‘Africa’” in Germany: Members of abok
Theatre Company in Conversation
Fouad LAROUI: Misunderstandings: Working Euro-African Life into
Fiction
Creative Writing
Fouad LAROUI: Le Pyjama bleu
Chika UNIGWE: Cotton Candy
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Notes for Contributors
ELISABETH BEKERS is Lecturer in British and Postcolonial
Literatures at the University of Brussels (VUB) and also teaches
Literatures in English at the University of Antwerp. SISSY HELFF is
a senior lecturer in English literary and cultural studies in the
Department for the New Literatures in English at the University of
Frankfurt. DANIELA MEROLLA is a senior lecturer in African
literatures in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Africa,
Leiden University.
Contributors: Susan Arndt, Elisabeth Bekers, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina
Brancato, Nadia Butt, Jacobia Dahm, Elisa Diallo, Susanne Gehrmann,
Marie–Hélène Gutberlet, Sissy Helff, Bettina Horn–Udeze, Graham
Huggan, Fouad Laroui, Annika McPherson, Christine Matzke, Daniela
Merolla, Obododimma Oha, Peter Pedroni, Daphne Pappers,
Marie–Christine Press, Eila Rantonen, Alex Rotas, Frank
Schulze–Engler, Daria Tunca, Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike.
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