European Peripheries and Practical Cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanorâs Faire lâaventure

Anna-Leena Toivanen

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The chapter discusses the novel Faire lâaventure by Fabienne Kanor. The analysis follows two lines of inquiry. Firstly, it focuses on the representation of the protagonistâs clandestine travels from Senegal to European insular locations which, from a central European perspective, are peripheral: the Canary Islands and another currently widely mediatised insular âgatewayâ to Europe, Lampedusa. The novel portrays the insular settings as unsatisfactory substitutes for the ârealâ Europe that the protagonist keeps striving for. Secondly, the analysis discusses the novelâs conceptualisations of popular cosmopolitanism, and pays attention to the limits that the concept faces in the context of clandestine Afroeuropean migrant mobility.

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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

Series:Â 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
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