Cameron Leader-Picone is a professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Black and More Than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era.

"Transit Lit is an ambitious and timely project that makes a significant contribution to studies of new African diasporic literature in the United States. Organized and well researched, this book promises to help define future conversations in the field." - Stephanie Li, Duke University

• A Note on Terminology Introduction: “ It is high time the African stood up” 1. The Campus and Cosmopolitanism 2. Afropolitanism and the African “ Good Immigrant” Narrative 3. Immigrant Metafictions and the Narrativizing of Bureaucracy 4. Afro-pessimist Narratives, Critical Cosmopolitanism, and Democracy 5. Slavery, Colonialism, and Conceptualizing Diaspora Coda: Xenophobia and Cosmopolitan Optimism Acknowledgments

Cameron Leader-Picone is a professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Black and More Than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era.

"Transit Lit is an ambitious and timely project that makes a significant contribution to studies of new African diasporic literature in the United States. Organized and well researched, this book promises to help define future conversations in the field." - Stephanie Li, Duke University

• A Note on Terminology Introduction: “ It is high time the African stood up” 1. The Campus and Cosmopolitanism 2. Afropolitanism and the African “ Good Immigrant” Narrative 3. Immigrant Metafictions and the Narrativizing of Bureaucracy 4. Afro-pessimist Narratives, Critical Cosmopolitanism, and Democracy 5. Slavery, Colonialism, and Conceptualizing Diaspora Coda: Xenophobia and Cosmopolitan Optimism Acknowledgments

Cameron Leader-Picone is a professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Black and More Than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era.

"Transit Lit is an ambitious and timely project that makes a significant contribution to studies of new African diasporic literature in the United States. Organized and well researched, this book promises to help define future conversations in the field." - Stephanie Li, Duke University

• A Note on Terminology Introduction: “ It is high time the African stood up” 1. The Campus and Cosmopolitanism 2. Afropolitanism and the African “ Good Immigrant” Narrative 3. Immigrant Metafictions and the Narrativizing of Bureaucracy 4. Afro-pessimist Narratives, Critical Cosmopolitanism, and Democracy 5. Slavery, Colonialism, and Conceptualizing Diaspora Coda: Xenophobia and Cosmopolitan Optimism Acknowledgments