Africans in exile : mobility, law, and identity /

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Imprint:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 337 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Framing the global book series Framing the global book series.
Subject:	Exiles -- Africa -- History. Exile (Punishment) -- Africa -- History. African diaspora. African diaspora. Exile (Punishment) Exiles. Africa. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541564

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Other authors / contributors:	Carpenter, Nathan Riley, editor, author. Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas), editor, author.
ISBN:	9780253038111 0253038111 9780253038104 0253038103 9780253038074
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2018).
Summary:	The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.
Other form:	Print version: Africans in exile. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018 9780253038074

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Holger Bernt Hansen
Introduction: Reconstructing the archive of Africans in exile / Nathan Riley Carpenter & Benjamin N. Lawrance
Part One: The legal worlds of exile
"Wayward humours" and "perverse disputings" / Ruma Chopra
From bandits to political prisoners / Trina Leah Hogg
The path of extinction / Nathan Riley Carpenter
Reforming state violence in French West Africa / Marie Rodet & Romain Tiquet
A kingdom in check / Thaïs Gendry
"As if I were in prison" / Brett L. Shadle
Part Two: Geographies of exile
In the city of waiting / Joanna T. Tague
Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau revolution in exile / Aliou Ly
Brothers in the bush / Kate Skinner
A Cold War geography / Susan Dabney Pennybacker
The French trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith Terretta
Part Three: Remembering and performing exile
Forced labor and migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet
Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the poetics of exile / Sana Camara
The legacy of exile / Kris Inman
Reconstructing slavery in Ohioan exile / E. Ann McDougall
A nation abroad / Benjamin N. Lawrance
Epilogue. From exile with love / Baba Galleh Jallow
Afterword. Worlds and words of migration / Emily S. Burrill
Poem. "Exile" / by Abena P.A. Busia.

Africans in exile : mobility, law, and identity /

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