In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template
through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of …

… Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and … rather than its forgotten past,
Goyal argues that it is through the … yogita goyal is an assistant professor in the Department of …

… by Yogita Goyal and Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi examine the reshaping of the black Atlantic
conception of slavery in its transnational afterlives. Goyal… slave narrative, Goyal argues that such …

This essay reads celebrated novels of the twenty-first-century African diaspora to rethink
existing ways of thinking about migration and blackness. Analyzing novels by Chris Abani (…

Abstract: I draw on Edward Said’s meditations on exile to critique Mohsin Hamid’s
representation of the migrant as a universal figure in his acclaimed 2017 novel Exit West. Hamid …

For two decades, the'transnational turn'in literary studies has generated enormous comment
and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, …

Theorists in cultural studies routinely invoke diaspora as a syncretized configuration of cultural
identity: shifting, flexible, and invariably anti-essentialist. This notion pointedly revises an …

This essay argues that contemporary American conceptions of African atrocity are haunted
by the specter of slavery, which structures the ways in which a relation between the United …

Viet thanh nguyen always insists that he is a refugee, not an immigrant, and that his novel the
sympathizer is a war novel rather than an immigrant story (“Viet Thanh Nguyen”). In an era …

… Goyal, Yogita … Edited and with an Introduction by Yogita Goyal … Yogita Goyal …