Abstract: »The scourge of human trafficking has recently garnered special literary attention characterized by the profusion of literary productions to address the issue. Drawing upon some Postcolonial concepts such as glocalization, dislocation, dependency theory and agency and radical feminism, the current paper provides an analysis of commodified female bodies in Ifeoma Chinwuba’s Merchants of Flesh. In this framework, it seeks to analyse on the one hand, how the political and socio-economic factors and mechanisms produce and reproduce emigration from African countries to European ‘promised lands’; and on the other, how these factors are the root causes of the trafficked characters’ slavery-like conditions in the destination countries. More importantly, the crux of the analysis is to show how the once-commodified bodies summon courage and strength to curb the phenomenon of sex trafficking to become free and self-achieved characters.« (Source: Échanges)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 243)
	Résumé (p. 243)
	Introduction (p. 243)
	1. Colonial “Legacies” as the Push Factors of Illegal Emigration (p. 255)
	2. Cruising to Europe: A Metaphor of a Psycho-physical Agony (p. 249)
	3. Unbinded Bodies: Healing and Redeeming the Body and Soul (p. 253)
	Conclusion (p. 255)
	Works Cited (p. 256)

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