This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.

Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez is "Margarita Salas" Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo and the postcolonial research centre CEREP based at the University of Liege. She is a member of the University of Oviedo's consolidated Research Group "Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories".

Introduction

1. Rethinking the Stranger from an Emotional and Literary Perspective

2. Choicelessness and Hopes in and beyond Literary Africa

3. Becoming "Black": Towards Racial Critical Consciousness

4. Contemporary Experiences of the Return to Africa

Conclusions