Afrodiasporic Female Automobility and Motel-Dwelling in Lesley Nneka Arimah's "Windfalls"

This article explores Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “Windfalls” (2017) from a literary mobility studies perspective, applying notions of such as the driving-event, friction, arrhythmia, and stickiness for an in-depth textual analysis. Given that its female migrant protagonists are constantly on move, tropes recur throughout story. Cars, filling stations, parking lots, truckers, motels figure sojourner play pivotal role in defining Afrodiasporic protagonists’ postmigratory mobilities United States. depiction automobility motel-dwelling underlines her theme flawed mother-daughter relationship their impossibility achieving promised American Dream. A close reading fictional travellers’ displacements uncovers critical analysis forms subversion hegemonic mothering. Particular attention is drawn to how motilities determined by racialised gendered bodies. By analysing representation concrete tangible performed Nigerian migrants, this study acknowleges importance exploring key characteristic third-generation fiction which has mostly gone unnoticed.