Rose A. Sackeyfio

West African Women in the Diaspora

Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora womenâ s fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africaâ s borders.

Produktdetails

• Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 216mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9781032113098
• ISBN-10: 103211309X
• Artikelnr.: 68714220

Autorenporträt

Rose A. Sackeyfio is Associate Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies and English at Winston-Salem State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the
Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in Our Sister
Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in
Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street Ch. 4. Negotiating Identity and
Pan-African Aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 5
Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in Diplomatic Pounds by
Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of
Return in Taiye Selasie's Ghana Must Go Ch. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and
Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie Ch. 8 There's No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in A Bit of
Difference by Sefi Atta Conclusion