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African Women Writing Diaspora
Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
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African Women Writing Diaspora
Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
About this book
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, 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. African Women Writing Diaspora illustrates that for African women, life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey across new landscapes of identity beyond Africa's borders as a unifying theme. The fictional works analyzed represent the leading women writers who dominate the African literary canon, and the contributors explore diverse themes of immigrant life, racialized identities, and otherness within transnational spaces of the west.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Memory, Identity, and Return in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
- Chapter 2: Malian Immigration in France: Perspectives from African Women Writers of French Expression 
- Chapter 3: Waithood and Girlhood in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
- Chapter 4: Sexuality, Resilience, and Mobility in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street
- Chapter 5: Transnational African Women as Voices of Conscience: Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy, Adichie’s Americanah, and Atta’s A Bit of Difference
- Chapter 6: Local and Global Perspectives on Nigerian Women’s Activism in News from Home by Sefi Atta
- Chapter 7: Breaking Mythical Barriers through a Feminist Engagement with Magical Realism
- Conclusion: Shifting the Boundaries of African Women’s Writing
- Index
- About the Contributors