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Anxious Mobilities in Accra and Beyond: Making Modern African Subjects in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
Toivanen, Anna-Leena
2017In Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 49 (2), p. 307-328
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Keywords :
Ama Ata Aidoo; Afropolitanism; Mobility; Modernity; Postcoloniality
Abstract :
[en] In Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (1991), the characters are constantly on the move: tropes of mobility recur throughout the novel. Cars, hotels, business and leisure travel, modern technologies and the figure of what can be referred to as the Afropolitan avant la lettre play a pivotal role in embodying meanings that pertain to class, gender, globalisation, and consumerism that mark the postcolonial African condition, and give the novel an articulately contemporary character. This article adopts a wholesale understanding of mobility in order to explore the ways in which Aidoo’s characters employ different forms of mobility in their processes of self-fashioning as modern African subjects. The article draws attention to the anxiety that informs African urban elites processes of self-fashioning, caught as they are between the tensions of the traditional and the modern.
Research center :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Toivanen, Anna-Leena ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Littérature anglaise moderne et littérature américaine
Language :
English
Title :
Anxious Mobilities in Accra and Beyond: Making Modern African Subjects in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
Publication date :
17 November 2017
Journal title :
Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society
ISSN :
0932-9714
Publisher :
Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Volume :
49
Issue :
2
Pages :
307-328
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
European Projects :
H2020 - 701238 - AFROEUROPOLITANS - Cosmopolitanism Revisited: Afro-European Mobilities in Contemporary African Diasporic Literatures
Funders :
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
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