Anxious Mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story

Anna-Leena Toivanen

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Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story

In: Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

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Pages:: 29–46

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444751_003

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The chapter focuses on Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (1991). The novel’s characters are constantly on the move. 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 marking the postcolonial African condition. The chapter adopts a wholesale understanding of mobility in order to explore the ways in which Aidoo’s characters employ different mobility practices in their processes of fashioning themselves as modern African subjects. The analysis draws attention to the anxiety that informs the proces3juses of the self-fashioning of the African urban elites, caught as they are between the tensions of the traditional and the modern.

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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 95

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004444751

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Feb 2021

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- African Studies
  - Literature & Culture
- Literature and Cultural Studies

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