African Women Writing Diaspora

Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Sackeyfio, Rose A.

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Produktbeschreibung

African Women Writing Diaspora examines the works of contemporary African female writers through diaspora perspectives on the constructions of identity in transnational spaces. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9781793642455
• ISBN-10: 1793642451
• Artikelnr.: 67180208

Autorenporträt

Rose A. Sackeyfio is associate professor of English in the Department of Liberal Studies at Winston-Salem State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Rose A. Sackeyfio
Chapter 1: Memory, Identity, and Return in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
Rose A. Sackeyfio
Chapter 2: Malian Immigration in France: Perspectives from African Women
Writers of French Expression
Cheryl Toman
Chapter 3: Waithood and Girlhood in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
Amanda Lagji
Chapter 4: Sexuality, Self-Actualization, and Mobility in Amma Darko's
Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street
Tomi Adeaga
Chapter 5: Transnational African Women as Voices of Conscience: Aidoo's Our
Sister Killjoy, Adichie's Americanah and Atta's A Bit of Difference
Nancy Henaku
Chapter 6: Local and Global Perspectives on Nigerian Women's Activism in
News from Home by Sefi Atta
Rose A. Sackeyfio
Chapter 7: Breaking Mythical Barriers through a Feminist Engagement with
Magical Realism
Olusegun Adeoluwa
Conclusion: Shifting the Boundaries of African Women's Writing
Rose A. Sackeyfio