The Hotel as a Space of Transit in Sefi Attaâs and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs Short Stories

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äºMobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

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The chapter analyses short stories by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: âHousekeepingâ (2010) and âTransition to Gloryâ (2006). Both short stories feature the figure of the African leisure traveller, tourist, and hotel guest. The hotel has frequently been conceived as a place and symbol of in-betweenness, deviance, and displacement. In âHousekeepingâ, the hotel serves as a setting for the exploration of the socio-economic differences between migrants and symbolises a sense of diasporic unbelonging. In âTransition to Gloryâ, the hotel room is used as a symbol of an adulterous relationship. It comes across as a space of deviance that is not properly inscribed in either the private/domestic or the public sphere. While set in spaces of transit, both texts articulate senses of longing for home and challenge the conventional ideas of mobility as empowering and desired.

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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

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