Transnational Mobility and Space in Sefi Atta's Short Stories "Green" and "Housekeeping".

This paper takes Bill Ashcroft's notion of the Transnation and his interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari's smooth and striated spaces to look into the transnational mobility of the immigrant population to and within the United States of America through the lenses of Sefi Atta's problematic and complex immigrant narratives in two of her short stories, "Green" and "Housekeeping". The paper delves into the kinds of mobilities that immigrants experience within a foreign space, explores their interaction with the different spaces, places and non-places that is shaped by their own cultural understanding, their national roots and the routes they choose in the host nation, both literally and metaphorically. It looks into the ideological forces that condition these interactions in an ever-baffling search for home and belongingness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]