Mobility and Intersectionality in Transnational Spaces: The Case of Migratory Subjects in Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
Abstract
A paradigm shift in Afrodiasporic literatures in subject matter and chronicling tools has propelled African imagination and African transnational writers to a new level of innovation. This paper will examine the variations, complexities, and contradictions of mobility and intersectionality and their consequent effects on the quotidian experiences of immigrants in local and global spaces. What is the nature of the transnational writers stories? How does one explain the stranglehold of the homeland on the hostland? How does new technology buttress and enhance efficiency in message transmission? Indeed, what makes transnationalism imperative for literary criticism and conceptualization of Afrodiasporic literature today? A study of the seven authors, contributors to the anthology, Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices From Africa to the African Diaspora, along with their short stories, shall seek to throw light on mobility and intersectionality in transnational spaces vis-à-vis possibilities for contemporary migratory subjects, concluding with a forecast for a migratory African imaginary.
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