A POLYVALENT MEDITERRANEAN, or the trope of nomadism in the literary oeuvre of Igiaba Scego and Abdourahman A. Waberi

Authors

Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, CUNY City CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

I argue that novelists Igiaba Scego and Abdourahman A. Waberi, building on the work of Nuruddin Farah among others, engage the trope of nomadism so as to propose a pre-colonial imaginary of a Somali polyvalent cosmopolitanism as a possible tool for thinking through our contemporary geographies of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Comments

This article was originally published in Relief, available at DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/relief.970.

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