Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9781032526690 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Spain) Suarez-Rodriguez Angela (University of Oviedo

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez is "Margarita Salas" Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo and the University of Liège. She is a member of the University of Oviedo’s consolidated Research Group "Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories".