Difficult diasporas : the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic /
In this comparative study of Black Atlantic women writers, the author demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, thi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | American Literature Initiative.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the feminist disorder of the diaspora
- The world and the "jar" : Jackie Kay and the feminist locations of the African diaspora
- It's lonely at the bottom : Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Richards, and the cosmopolitan poetics of the Black body
- The drama of dislocation : staging diaspora history in the work of Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo
- Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Brodber, and the gendered fictions of Black modernity
- Intimate migrations : narrating "third world women" in the short fiction of Bessie Head, Zo Wicomb, and Pauline Melville
- Impossible objects : M. Nourbese Philip, Harryette Mullen, and the diaspora feminist aesthetics of accumulation
- Coda : the risks of reading.
