Description
Product ID: | 9781032420011 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Contemporary Africa |
Title: | Women Writers of the New African Diaspora |
Subtitle: | Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency |
Authors: | Author: Pauline Ada Uwakweh |
Page Count: | 242 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Regional / International studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional geography, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Regional studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional geography |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. It brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers’ works by revealing emerging trends in women’s literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-12-30 |