Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces. The book starts by building a picture of cosmopolitanism thinking from the European Enlightenment through to key postcolonial thinkers like Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, and Arjun Appadurai. However, the book shows that far from a picture of diverse groups coming together ...