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Frassinelli, Pier Paolo

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“…He embodies what Frassinelli describes as 'the precarity and vulnerability of the mobile identities and communities shaped by the experience of migration.' 28 In order to effect this escape from the camp, he needs an identity which allows him to transcend the limitations of his circumstances, and in a sense, invent a new self. Whereas Malouk creates myriad worlds of fantasy, Asad's story must be singular.…”

Section: A Man Of Good Hope: Being In the Wakementioning

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In the Wake: Postcolonial Migrations from the Horn of Africa

Duncan

2019

Forum for Modern Language Studies

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Abu Bakr Khaal’s African Titanics (written in Arabic) and Jonny Steinberg’s A Man of Good Hope (written in English) track diasporic movements from the former Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somalia. Focusing on mobility as well as memory, both books trace complicated and unpredictable patterns of forced displacement and precarious settlement. African Titanics charts the journey from Eritrea to the shores of the Mediterranean and the sea crossing to Europe, while A Man of Good Hope follows the movement overland from Somalia to South Africa. Both texts delineate communities networked across national borders and propose an alternative geography formed by cultural commonality rather than geopolitical division. The essay draws on Christina Sharpe’s concept of the ‘wake’ as a means of understanding how migrant subjectivity and community are formed through the multiple forms of racialized violence experienced in transnational mobility.

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Section: A Man Of Good Hope: Being In the Wakementioning

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In the Wake: Postcolonial Migrations from the Horn of Africa

Duncan

2019

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Living in translation

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