Le continent blanc de la nuit Ré-imaginer l’Europe dans les récits féminins de l’esclavage néocolonial : On Black Sisters’ Street et Joy

This article compares Chika Unigwe’s novel On Black Sisters’ Street and Sudabeh Mortezai’s film Joy, both about Nigerian women trafficked for sex work to Belgium and Austria respectively. They share a genre genealogy with slave narratives but are primarily concerned with European (neo-)colonialism. Drawing on postcolonial and intersectional theory as well as imagology, this article analyses the Black female re-imagination and strategic exoticisation of Europe in the two narratives.