Crocheting earthly communities into existence: Chris Abani’s commitment to art as a transformative rite

The Chapter strives to address the topic of migration of literary forms, languages, identities, bodies, politics, through the literary work of Global Ibo writer Chris Abani. Transformation is a keyword in his oeuvre: it informs both his poetic and narrative endeavors, and as a theme-strategy-method it works to open up imaginative spaces of reflections on the status of the human, the social and the planetary, which speak to an era of crisis, unremitting crossings, migrations, and persisting boundaries.