How do Africa Diaspora writers represent their mobility and that of their protagonists in the 20th and 21st centuries? What is the relationship between mobility and subjectivity? Through the examination of African-American, African, and Caribbean writing, we will explore these questions along with major conceptualizations of migration, including diaspora, exile, cosmopolitanism, return migration, and heritage tourism. Starting the journey in the slave dungeons of west Africa with Saidiya Hartman’s memoir Lose Your Mother, we will travel to the Caribbean with Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, then to Paris with James Baldwin and William Smith, and finally to Nigeria, alongside Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These selected readings will introduce you to major voices in African diaspora studies as well as provide the basis for discussion and your analytical essays.