Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants' desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

ForewordToyin FalolaIntroduction: Transitional Identity and Cultural Ambiguity in Diasporic African LiteratureDelphine FongangPart I: Globalization, Migration, and Border Crisscrossing1. Migration and African Diasporic Constructions in Chimamanda N Adichie¿s AmericanahHenry Kah Jick and Kelvin Ngong Toh2. Inescapable Predicament: Migration and Diasporic Identity in Brian Chikwaväs Harare NorthDelphine Fongang3. Politics of Migration: Dreams, Illusions and Reality in Okey Ndibe¿s Foreign Gods Inc. and NoViolet Bulawayös We Need New Names.Bosede Funke AfolayanPart II: Liminal Spaces, Hybridity and Gendered Identities4. Black Americans and American Blacks: Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie¿s AmericanahNäImah H. Ford5. In Search of Self:Teju Cole's Transcultural Urban Novel Open CityIgor Maver6. Entrapment and Dislocation: Migration and the Construction of ¿Queer¿ Subjectivity in Contemporary North African Literary NarrativesGibson Ncube7. Mirror and Sexuality: Double Oppression of African Female Diasporic Subjects in Hannah Khoury¿s So Pretty an AfricanSamuel KamaraPart III: Reconnecting with the Homeland8. ¿The Return of the Native¿: Discourse of the Homecoming `Returnee¿ Migrant in the Narratives of M. G. VassanjiShilpa Daithota Bhat9. Arrivals, Geographies, and ¿The Usual Reply¿ in Emily Raboteaüs Searching for ZionNicole Stamant10. Dislocation, Mimicry and the Geography of Home in Sefi Attäs A Bit of DifferenceGrace Adeniyi OgunyankinConclusion: Emerging Perspectives in African Diasporic LiteratureDelphine Fongang