Women&#039;s Perspectives on (Post)Migration: Between Literature, Arts and Activism – Between Africa and Europe

Julia Borst; Stephanie Neu-Wendel; Juliane Tauchnitz

doi:10.5771/9783487423555

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This volume takes a closer look at women’s perspectives on (post-)migration and explores the uncertainties, frictions, struggles and opportunities emerging from that context. It revolves around African and Afrodescendant female writers and artists and refers to the uncomfortable stories they tell, stories about what it means to have migrated to, live in, or have been born in Romance-speaking Europe. Their voices reveal positionings of the ‘female Other’ that oscillate between alienation and belonging, moving between African, European and other (diasporic) spaces. The scholarly articles, from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, explore literature, theatre, film and the internet and cover a variety of countries and Romance languages. The volume engages simultaneously in a dialogue with writers and activists: it includes short and micro stories by Melibea Obono and Ubah Cristina Ali Farah as well as interviews with Amina Marini, Mimina Icir Di Muro and Aminata Aidara, Kaha Mohamed Aden, Igiaba Scego and Desirée Bela-Lobedde.

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Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-487-16351-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-487-42355-5
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 0
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
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1. Works Cited
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1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. Differing female positionings
3. 3. Breaking with the autobiographical testimony – L'últim patriarca by Najat El Hachmi
4. Works Cited
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1. 1. Révélation à la lumière du 'drame social' et du 'drame esthétique'
2. 2. Efficacité esthétique de Révélation
3. 3. Écriture scénique de Révélation : au-delà des identités afropéennes de Miano
4. Bibliographie
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1. 1. Cosa pensavi quand’eri piccola dell’Altro Continente? Quello da cui provenivano uno o entrambi tuoi genitori?
2. 2. E che idee avevi, se ne avevi, delle persone appartenenti a minoranze, bianche o nere che fossero, con le quali entravi in contatto?
3. 3. Quand’eri bambino/a hai mai discriminato qualcuno per il suo aspetto?
4. 4. E sei stata vittima di discriminazione?
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1. “Trasformo il pianto in una lingua […]”: agency in Oltre Babilonia di Igiaba Scego
2. Passare allo ‘spazio’ delle relazioni: Madre piccola di Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
3. Riassunto
4. Bibliografia
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1. 1. Introducing the two novels
2. 2. A focus on masculinities
3. 3. Relational histories
4. 4. Hostile fathers, alienated mothers and nurturing grandmothers
5. Works Cited
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1. Bibliografia
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1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. Identity and recognition: Honneth, Butler, Mbembe, inter alia
3. 3. Between Africa and Europe. Identity, recognition and language in the work of Ken Bugul
4. 4. Self- and external perception. Memory, identity and recognition in the work of Fatou Diome
5. 5. Conclusion – Between resignation and empowerment and the liberating function of literary writing
6. Works Cited
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1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. L’afroromania : ethnoscapes selon Arjun Appadurai
3. 3. Les femmes de descendance africaine doublement subordonnées: race et gender selon hooks
4. 4. Conclusion
5. Bibliographie
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1. Simonetta Puleio / Stephanie Neu-Wendel: Introduzione
2. Ubah Cristina Ali Farah: Medea e Amir
3. Sandra
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1. 1. Orlanda Amarílis and Benjamin’s “chronotope”
2. 2. Cais-do-Sodré Té Salamansa (1974): Emigrants’ Stories
3. 3. Immigrants’ Experiences in Lisbon
4. 4. Gender Violence and Emigration
5. 5. The Postcolonial Perspective
6. 6. Final Remarks
7. Works Cited
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1. Afrodiasporic Communities and Aesthetic Activism in Cyberspace
2. Afrofeminist Blogs as Tools of Self-Affirmation and Empowerment – An Overview of Examples from France, Spain and Italy
3. Badassafrofem and Les Bavardages de Kiyémis (France): Reclaiming and Re-Signifying Black Bodies
4. Afroféminas and Desirée Bela-Lobedde’s Online Activism (Spain): Challenging Eurocentric Beauty Standards and Celebrating Black Bodies
5. Nappytalia (Italy): “Natural” Hairstyles as Self-Affirmation and Markers of Diversity
6. Conclusion
7. Works Cited
Intervista con Igiaba ScegoPages 253 - 278
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1. Stress and coping theories
2. Conclusion
3. Works Cited
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1. Bibliografía
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1. Bibliografía
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1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. Une écriture frontalière
3. 3. Les voix féminines de Blues pour Élise
4. 4. L’analyse du potentiel subversif de la langue et du langage des Afropéennes
5. 5. Conclusion
6. Bibliographie
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1. The Story of Kehinde
2. Back in Africa
3. Bahia Houses
4. The Relevance of the “Color Defect”
5. Works Cited
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1. Julia Borst / Danae Gallo González: Notas introductorias a Melibea Obono y su obra literaria
2. La obra literaria de Melibea Obono (en español y traducida a otraslenguas)
3. Melibea Obono: Mberbí: el llanto más grande de las mujeres
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1. Le couple mixte aux Antilles : chiffres versus littérature
2. Couple mixte face à l’histoire et à l’inconscient antillais
3. « Counterarchival source » : L’importance de la voix de la femme noire. Non M. Fanon, nous ne souhaitons pas toutes être lactifiées
4. Conclusion
5. Bibliographie
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