Angela Suarez-Rodriguez

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women's Writing

Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781032526690
• ISBN-10: 1032526696
• Artikelnr.: 68716079

Autorenporträt

Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez is "Margarita Salas" Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo and the postcolonial research centre CEREP based at the University of Liege. She is a member of the University of Oviedo's consolidated Research Group "Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Rethinking the Stranger from an Emotional and Literary Perspective
2. Choicelessness and Hopes in and beyond Literary Africa
3. Becoming "Black": Towards Racial Critical Consciousness
4. Contemporary Experiences of the Return to Africa
Conclusions