... of lived imperial and/or nationalist politics. In the context of African literature specifically, the essay also offers a new through-line connecting key liberation-era fiction (e.g., Charles Mungoshi, Dambudzo Marechera) with some of its current transnational successor texts (e.g., NoViolet Bulawayo...

...—as depicted in Tendai Huchu's The Hairdresser of Harare (2010) and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013). Bulawayo's and Huchu's novels show characters' attempts to buy out of the crisis through economic migrancy. But buying out is never a complete exit; it demands expenditure through loss of home...

... . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2015 . Bulawayo NoViolet . We Need New Names . London : Vintage , 2013 . Chimurenga . FESTAC ’77 . Cape Town: Chimurenga / London : Afterall Books , 2019 . Chude-Sokei Louis . “ Introduction: Blackness as Method .” Black Scholar 47 . 4 ( 2017...

... The Interpreter of Maladies ( 1999 ), and Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006), and other globally circulating novels such as Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy (1990), Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000), Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge (2003), and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013), where diaspora...