African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century

Rose A. Sackeyfio

doi:10.5771/9781793642448

Summary

African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, and political transformation. African Women Writing Diaspora illustrates that for African women, life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey across new landscapes of identity beyond Africa’s borders as a unifying theme. The fictional works analyzed represent the leading women writers who dominate the African literary canon, and the contributors explore diverse themes of immigrant life, racialized identities, and otherness within transnational spaces of the west.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4243-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4244-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 138
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Telling the African Story in the Global Age No access
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1. Memory as History No access
2. Resistance and Identity No access
3. Reclaiming the Past No access
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1. Sexuality and Resiliency in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon No access
2. Sexuality and Mobility in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street No access
3. Conclusion No access
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1. Theorizing Cultural Misrepresentations of African Women No access
2. Transnational Feminist Aesthetics and the Selected Texts No access
3. Mobility and Gaze No access
4. Oppositional Consciousness and Voicing No access
5. Comparative Perspective on Oppression No access
6. Conclusion No access
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1. Joseph Campbell’s “Monomyth” and Archetypal Mythic Structure No access
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Index No access Pages 129 - 136
About the Contributors No access Pages 137 - 138