Migration and Return in Modern African Literature: Black Bodies in White Spaces

＂Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment, and the impulse to return. The experiences of African migrants in the diaspora are deeply inflected by the condition of living as Black bodies in white spaces. ... Cole examines closely the narratives of migration and return presented in nine ... novels by authors who include Chimamanda Andichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, Teju Cole, and others. The novels reveal a reversal of expectations that migrants from Africa experience upon arrival in the West, a reversal prompted in part by the racial prejudice they are confronted with as Black individuals＂--