Longing, Belonging and the Other

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Longing, Belonging and the Other

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Black African Diasporic Literatures across French and Spanish Contexts

Written by Nelson Sindze Wembe

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How do Black African diasporic literatures articulate the desire for elsewhere and the struggle to belong? Drawing on a comparative corpus of texts written in French and Spanish, Nelson Sindze Wembe examines how migration, return, and disillusion shape diasporic subjectivities at the intersection of racialisation, alterity, and the politics of belonging. Conceptualising longing as a psychological and symbolic motor, he shows how it structures processes of affiliation, identity formation, and encounters with the Other. By foregrounding contradiction, ambivalence, and in-between positions, the study offers an original contribution to Black African diaspora studies and contemporary literary theory.

Nelson Sindze Wembe, born in 1989, works as a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bremen. He completed his doctorate within the DFG-funded Research Training Group Contradictions Studies and was affiliated with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). His research lies at the intersection of comparative literature, African studies, diaspora studies, and film studies.

ISBN-13: 9783837682472
Publisher: transcript
Imprint: transcript
Publication date: 30 September 2026
Format: Paperback
Pages: 348
Dimensions: 225 x 148 mm
Language: English